[The Nevada constitution was framed by a convention of
delegates chosen by the people. The convention met at Carson City on July 4,
1864, and adjourned on July 28 of the same year. On the 1st Wednesday of
September 1864, the constitution was approved by the vote of the people of the
Territory of Nevada, and on October 31, 1864, President Lincoln proclaimed that
the State of Nevada was admitted into the Union on an equal footing with the
original states.

The literal text of the original, signed copy of the
constitution filed in the office of the secretary of state has been retained,
unless it has been repealed or superseded by amendment. Where the original text
has been amended or where a new provision has been added to the original
constitution, the source of the amendment or addition is indicated in the
source note immediately following the text of the amended or new section.
Leadlines for sections have been supplied by the Legislative Counsel of the
State of Nevada.]

The Act of Congress Approved March Twenty First A.D.
Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Four “To enable the People of the Territory of
Nevada to form a Constitution and State Government and for the admission of
such State into the Union on an equal footing with the Original States,”
requires that the Members of the Convention for framing said Constitution
shall, after Organization, on behalf of the people of said Territory, adopt the
Constitution of the United States.—Therefore, Be it Resolved,

That the Members of
this Convention, elected by the Authority of the aforesaid enabling Act of
Congress, Assembled in Carson City the Capital of said Territory of Nevada, and
immediately subsequent to its Organization, do adopt, on behalf of the people
of said Territory the Constitution of the United States[.]

ORDINANCE

Slavery prohibited; freedom of
religious worship; disclaimer of public lands. [Effective until the date
Congress consents to amendment or a legal determination is made that such
consent is not necessary.]In
obedience to the requirements of an act of the Congress of the United States,
approved March twenty-first, A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to enable
the people of Nevada to form a constitution and state government, this
convention, elected and convened in obedience to said enabling act, do ordain
as follows, and this ordinance shall be irrevocable, without the consent of the
United States and the people of the State of Nevada:

First. That there shall be in this state neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment for crimes,
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.

Second. That perfect toleration of religious sentiment
shall be secured, and no inhabitant of said state shall ever be molested, in
person or property, on account of his or her mode of religious worship.

Third. That the people inhabiting said territory do
agree and declare, that they forever disclaim all right and title to the
unappropriated public lands lying within said territory, and that the same
shall be and remain at the sole and entire disposition of the United States;
and that lands belonging to citizens of the United States, residing without the
said state, shall never be taxed higher than the land belonging to the
residents thereof; and that no taxes shall be imposed by said state on lands or
property therein belonging to, or which may hereafter be purchased by, the
United States, unless otherwise provided by the congress of the United States.

[Amended in 1956. Proposed and passed by the 1953
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1955 legislature; approved and
ratified by the people at the 1956 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1953, p. 718; Statutes of Nevada 1955, p. 926.]

Slavery prohibited; freedom of
religious worship; taxation of certain property. [Effective on the date
Congress consents to amendment or a legal determination is made that such
consent is not necessary.] In obedience to the requirements
of an act of the Congress of the United States, approved March twenty-first,
A.D. eighteen hundred and sixty-four, to enable the people of Nevada to form a
constitution and state government, this convention, elected and convened in
obedience to said enabling act, do ordain as follows, and this ordinance shall
be irrevocable, without the consent of the United States and the people of the
State of Nevada:

First. That there shall be in this state neither
slavery nor involuntary servitude, otherwise than in the punishment for crimes,
whereof the party shall have been duly convicted.

Second. That perfect toleration of religious sentiment
shall be secured, and no inhabitant of said state shall ever be molested, in
person or property, on account of his or her mode of religious worship.

Third. That the people inhabiting said territory do
agree and declare, that lands belonging to citizens of the United States,
residing without the said state, shall never be taxed higher than the land
belonging to the residents thereof; and that no taxes shall be imposed by said
state on lands or property therein belonging to, or which may hereafter be
purchased by, the United States, unless otherwise provided by the Congress of
the United States.

[Amended in 1956 and 1996. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1953 legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1955 legislature; approved and ratified by the people at the 1956 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1953, p. 718; Statutes of Nevada 1955, p.
926. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1993 legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1995 legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1996 general election, effective on the date Congress consents to
amendment or a legal determination is made that such consent is not necessary.
See: Statutes of Nevada 1993, p. 3136;
Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2917.]

PREAMBLE.

We the people of the State of Nevada Grateful to
Almighty God for our freedom in order to secure its blessings, insure domestic
tranquility, and form a more perfect Government, do establish this Constitution.

21. Limitation
on recognition of marriage. [Effective through November 21, 2016, and after
that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 13 (2013) are
agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2016 General Election.]

21. Recognition
of marriage; right of religious organizations and clergy to refuse to solemnize
a marriage. [Effective November 22, 2016, if the provisions of Senate Joint
Resolution No. 13 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and
approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

Section. 1. Inalienable rights. All men are by Nature
free and equal and have certain inalienable rights among which are those of
enjoying and defending life and liberty; Acquiring, Possessing and Protecting
property and pursuing and obtaining safety and happiness[.]

Sec: 2. Purpose of government; paramount allegiance to United States. All
political power is inherent in the people[.] Government is instituted for the
protection, security and benefit of the people; and they have the right to
alter or reform the same whenever the public good may require it. But the
Paramount Allegiance of every citizen is due to the Federal Government in the
exercise of all its Constitutional powers as the same have been or may be
defined by the Supreme Court of the United States; and no power exists in the
people of this or any other State of the Federal Union to dissolve their
connection therewith or perform any act tending to impair[,] subvert, or resist
the Supreme Authority of the government of the United States. The Constitution
of the United States confers full power on the Federal Government to maintain
and Perpetuate its existance [existence], and whensoever any portion of the
States, or people thereof attempt to secede from the Federal Union, or forcibly
resist the Execution of its laws, the Federal Government may, by warrant of the
Constitution, employ armed force in compelling obedience to its Authority.

Sec: 3. Trial by jury; waiver in civil cases. The
right of trial by Jury shall be secured to all and remain inviolate forever;
but a Jury trial may be waived by the parties in all civil cases in the manner
to be prescribed by law; and in civil cases, if three fourths of the Jurors
agree upon a verdict it shall stand and have the same force and effect as a
verdict by the whole Jury, Provided, the Legislature by a law passed by a two
thirds vote of all the members elected to each branch thereof may require a unanimous
verdict notwithstanding this Provision.

Sec: 4. Liberty of conscience. The free exercise and
enjoyment of religious profession and worship without discrimination or
preference shall forever be allowed in this State, and no person shall be
rendered incompetent to be a witness on account of his opinions on matters of
his religious belief, but the liberty of consciene [conscience] hereby secured,
shall not be so construed, as to excuse acts of licentiousness or justify
practices inconsistent with the peace, or safety of this State.

Sec: 5. Suspension of habeas corpus. The privilege
of the writ of Habeas Corpus, shall not be suspended unless when in cases of
rebellion or invasion the public safety may require its suspension.

Sec. 7. Bail; exception for capital offenses and certain murders. All
persons shall be bailable by sufficient sureties; unless for Capital Offenses
or murders punishable by life imprisonment without possibility of parole when
the proof is evident or the presumption great.

[Amended in 1980. Proposed and passed by the
1977 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1979 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1980 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1977, p. 1697; Statutes of Nevada 1979, p. 1941.]

Sec. 8. Rights of accused in criminal prosecutions; jeopardy; rights of
victims of crime; due process of law; eminent domain.

1. No person shall be tried for a capital
or other infamous crime (except in cases of impeachment, and in cases of the
militia when in actual service and the land and naval forces in time of war, or
which this State may keep, with the consent of Congress, in time of peace, and
in cases of petit larceny, under the regulation of the Legislature) except on
presentment or indictment of the grand jury, or upon information duly filed by
a district attorney, or Attorney General of the State, and in any trial, in any
court whatever, the party accused shall be allowed to appear and defend in
person, and with counsel, as in civil actions. No person shall be subject to be
twice put in jeopardy for the same offense; nor shall he be compelled, in any
criminal case, to be a witness against himself.

2. The Legislature shall provide by law
for the rights of victims of crime, personally or through a representative, to
be:

(a) Informed, upon written request, of the status
or disposition of a criminal proceeding at any stage of the proceeding;

(b) Present at all public hearings involving the
critical stages of a criminal proceeding; and

(c) Heard at all proceedings for the sentencing
or release of a convicted person after trial.

3. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 4, no person may maintain an action against the State or any public
officer or employee for damages or injunctive, declaratory or other legal or
equitable relief on behalf of a victim of a crime as a result of a violation of
any statute enacted by the Legislature pursuant to subsection 2. No such
violation authorizes setting aside a conviction or sentence or continuing or
postponing a criminal proceeding.

4. A person may maintain an action to
compel a public officer or employee to carry out any duty required by the
Legislature pursuant to subsection 2.

5. No person shall be deprived of life,
liberty, or property, without due process of law.

6. Private property shall not be taken for
public use without just compensation having been first made, or secured, except
in cases of war, riot, fire, or great public peril, in which case compensation
shall be afterward made.

[Amended in 1912 and 1996. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1909 legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1911 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1912 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1909, p. 346; Statutes of Nevada 1911, p.
454. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1993 legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1995 legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1996 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1993, p. 3065;
Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2880.]

Sec: 9. Liberty of speech and the press. Every
citizen may freely speak, write and publish his sentiments on all subjects
being responsible for the abuse of that right; and no law shall be passed to
restrain or abridge the liberty of speech or of the press. In all criminal
prosecutions and civil actions for libels, the truth may be given in evidence
to the Jury; and if it shall appear to the Jury that the matter charged as
libelous is true and was published with good motives and for justifiable ends,
the party shall be acquitted or exonerated.

Sec: 10. Right to assemble and to petition. The
people shall have the right freely to assemble together to consult for the
common good, to instruct their representatives and to petition the Legislature
for redress of Grievances.

Sec. 11. Right
to keep and bear arms; civil power supreme.

1. Every citizen has the right to keep and
bear arms for security and defense, for lawful hunting and recreational use and
for other lawful purposes.

2. The military shall be subordinate to
the civil power; No standing army shall be maintained by this State in time of
peace, and in time of War, no appropriation for a standing army shall be for a
longer time than two years.

[Amended in 1982. Proposed and passed by the
1979 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1981 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1982 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1979, p. 1986; Statutes of Nevada 1981, p. 2083.]

Sec: 12. Quartering soldier in private house. No
soldier shall, in time of Peace be quartered in any house without the consent
of the owner, nor in time of War, except in the manner to be prescribed by law.

Sec: 13. Representation apportioned according to population.Representation shall be apportioned according
to population.

Sec: 14. Exemption of property from execution; imprisonment for debt. The
privilege of the debtor to enjoy the necessary comforts of life shall be
recognized by wholesome laws, exempting a reasonable amount of property from
seizure or sale for payment of any debts or liabilities hereafter contracted;
And there shall be no imprisonment for debt, except in cases of fraud, libel,
or slander, and no person shall be imprisioned [imprisoned] for a Militia fine
in time of Peace.

Sec: 15. Bill of attainder; ex post facto law; obligation of contract. No
bill of attainder, ex-post-facto law, or law impairing the obligation of
contracts shall ever be passed.

Sec: 16. Rights of foreigners. [Repealed in 1924.]

[Sec. 16 of the original constitution was
repealed by vote of the people at the 1924 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1921, p. 416; Statutes of Nevada 1923, p. 407. The original section
read: “Foreigners who are, or who may hereafter become Bona-fide residents of
this State, shall enjoy the same rights, in respect to the possession,
enjoyment and inheritance of property, as native born citizens.”]

Sec. 18. Unreasonable seizure and search; issuance of warrants. The
right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers and effects
against unreasonable seizures and searches shall not be violated; and no
warrant shall issue but on probable cause, supported by Oath or Affirmation,
particularly describing the place or places to be searched, and the person or
persons, and thing or things to be seized.

Sec: 19. Treason. Treason against the State shall
consist only in levying war against it, adhering to its enemies or giving them
Aid and Comfort. And no person shall be convicted of treason unless on the
testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open
court.

Sec: 20. Rights retained by people. This enumeration
of rights shall not be construed to impair or deny others retained by the
people.

Sec: 21. Limitation on recognition of marriage. [Effective through
November 21, 2016, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint
Resolution No. 13 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and
approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.] Only
a marriage between a male and female person shall be recognized and given
effect in this state.

[Added in 2002. Proposed by initiative petition
and approved and ratified by the people at the 2000 and 2002 general
elections.]

Sec. 21. Recognition of marriage; right of religious organizations and
clergy to refuse to solemnize a marriage. [Effective November 22, 2016, if the
provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 13 (2013) are agreed to and passed by
the 2015 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016
General Election.]

1. The State of
Nevada and its political subdivisions shall recognize marriages and issue
marriage licenses to couples, regardless of gender.

2. Religious organizations and clergy have
the right to refuse to solemnize a marriage and no person has the right to make
any claim against a religious organization or clergy for such a refusal.

3. All legally valid marriages shall be
treated equally under the law.

[Added in 2002. Proposed by initiative petition
and approved and ratified by the people at the 2000 and 2002 general
elections.]—(Proposed amendment passed by the 2013 Legislature; effective
November 22, 2016, if agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved
and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada
2013, p.
3962.)

Sec. 22. Eminent domain proceedings: Restrictions and requirements.Notwithstanding any other provision of this
Constitution to the contrary:

1. Public use shall not include the direct
or indirect transfer of any interest in property taken in an eminent domain
proceeding from one private party to another private party. In all eminent
domain actions, the government shall have the burden to prove public use.

2. In all eminent domain actions, prior to
the government’s occupancy, a property owner shall be given copies of all
appraisals by the government and shall be entitled, at the property owner’s
election, to a separate and distinct determination by a district court jury, as
to whether the taking is actually for a public use.

3. If a public use is determined, the
taken or damaged property shall be valued at its highest and best use without
considering any future dedication requirements imposed by the government. If
private property is taken for any proprietary governmental purpose, then the
property shall be valued at the use to which the government intends to put the
property, if such use results in a higher value for the land taken.

4. In all eminent domain actions, just
compensation shall be defined as that sum of money, necessary to place the
property owner back in the same position, monetarily, without any governmental
offsets, as if the property had never been taken. Just compensation shall
include, but is not limited to, compounded interest and all reasonable costs
and expenses actually incurred.

5. In all eminent domain actions where
fair market value is applied, it shall be defined as the highest price the
property would bring on the open market.

6. Property taken in eminent domain shall
automatically revert back to the original property owner upon repayment of the
original purchase price, if the property is not used within five years for the
original purpose stated by the government. The five years shall begin running
from the date of the entry of the final order of condemnation.

7. A property owner shall not be liable to
the government for attorney fees or costs in any eminent domain action.

8. For all provisions contained in this
section, government shall be defined as the State of Nevada, its political
subdivisions, agencies, any public or private agent acting on their behalf, and
any public or private entity that has the power of eminent domain.

9. Any provision contained in this section
shall be deemed a separate and freestanding right and shall remain in full
force and effect should any other provision contained in this section be
stricken for any reason.

[Added in 2008. Proposed by initiative petition
and approved and ratified by the people at the 2006 and 2008 General
Elections.]

ARTICLE. 2. - Right of Suffrage.

Sec.1. Right to vote; qualifications of elector;
qualifications of nonelector to vote for President and Vice President of United
States.

Section 1. Right to vote; qualifications of elector; qualifications of
nonelector to vote for President and Vice President of United States. All
citizens of the United States (not laboring under the disabilities named in
this constitution) of the age of eighteen years and upwards, who shall have
actually, and not constructively, resided in the state six months, and in the
district or county thirty days next preceding any election, shall be entitled
to vote for all officers that now or hereafter may be elected by the people,
and upon all questions submitted to the electors at such election; provided,
that no person who has been or may be convicted of treason or felony in any
state or territory of the United States, unless restored to civil rights, and
no person who has been adjudicated mentally incompetent, unless restored to
legal capacity, shall be entitled to the privilege of an elector. There shall
be no denial of the elective franchise at any election on account of sex. The
legislature may provide by law the conditions under which a citizen of the
United States who does not have the status of an elector in another state and
who does not meet the residence requirements of this section may vote in this
state for President and Vice President of the United States.

[Amended in 1880, 1886, 1914, 1970, 1971 and
2004. The first amendment was proposed and passed by the 1877 Legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1879 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1880 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1877, p. 213;
Statutes of Nevada 1879, p. 149. The second amendment was approved and ratified
by the people at the 1886 General Election, but no entry of the proposed
amendment had been made upon the journal of either house of the Legislature,
and such omission was fatal to the adoption of the amendment. See: State ex
rel. Stevenson v. Tufly, 19 Nev. 391 (1887). The third amendment was proposed
and passed by the 1911 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1913
Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1914 General
Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1911, p. 457; Statutes of Nevada 1913, p.
581. The fourth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1967 Legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1969 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1970 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1967, p. 1827;
Statutes of Nevada 1969, p. 1657. The fifth amendment was proposed and passed
by the 1969 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1971 Legislature; and
approved and ratified by the people at a special election held on June 8, 1971. See: Statutes of Nevada 1969, p. 1685; Statutes of Nevada 1971, p. 2263. The
sixth amendment was proposed and passed by the 2001 Legislature; agreed to and
passed by the 2003 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the
2004 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 2001, p. 3469;
Statutes of Nevada 2003, p. 3726.]

Sec. 2. When residence not gained or lost. For the
purpose of voting, no person shall be deemed to have gained or lost a residence
solely by reason of his presence or absence while employed in the service of
the United States, nor while engaged in the navigation of the waters of the
United States or of the high seas; nor while a student of any institution of
learning; nor while kept at any charitable institution or medical facility at
public expense; nor while confined in any public prison.

[Amended in 1972. Proposed and passed by the
1969 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1971 legislature; approved and
ratified by the people at the 1972 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1969, p. 1695; Statutes of Nevada 1971, p. 2240.]

Section 3. Armed Forces personnel. [Repealed in 1972.]

[Amended in 1956. Proposed and passed by the
1953 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1955 legislature; approved and
ratified by the people at the 1956 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1953, p. 732; Statutes of Nevada 1955, p. 952. Repealed in 1972. Repealer
proposed and passed by the 1969 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1971
legislature; approved and ratified by the people at the 1972 general election.
See: Statutes of Nevada 1969, p. 1695; Statutes of Nevada 1971, p. 2240. The
section as amended in 1956 and repealed in 1972 read: “The right of suffrage
shall be enjoyed by all persons, otherwise entitled to the same, who may be in
the military or naval service of the United States; provided, the votes so cast
shall be made to apply to the county and township of which said voters were
bona fide residents at the time of their entry into such service; and provided
further, that the payment of a poll tax shall not be required as a condition to
the right of voting. Provision shall be made by law, regulating the manner of
voting, holding elections, and making returns of such elections, wherein other
provisions are not contained in this constitution.”]

Sec: 4. Privilege of qualified electors on general election day. During
the day on which any General Election shall be held in this State no qualified
elector shall be arrested by virtue of any civil process.

Sec: 5. Voting by ballot; voting in elections by legislature. All
elections by the people shall be by ballot, and all elections by the
Legislature, or by either branch thereof shall be “Viva-Voce”.

Sec: 6. Registration of electors; test of electoral qualifications. Provision
shall be made by law for the registration of the names of the Electors within
the counties of which they may be residents and for the ascertainment by proper
proofs of the persons who shall be entitled to the right of suffrage, as hereby
established, to preserve the purity of elections, and to regulate the manner of
holding and making returns of the same; and the Legislature shall have power to
prescribe by law any other or further rules or oaths, as may be deemed
necessary, as a test of electoral qualification.

Section 7. Poll tax: Levy and purpose. [Repealed in
1966.]

[Amended in 1910. Proposed and passed by the
1907 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1909 legislature; approved and
ratified by the people at the 1910 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1907,
p. 450; Statutes of Nevada 1909, p. 344. Repealed in 1966. Repealer proposed
and passed by the 1963 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1965
legislature; approved and ratified by the people at the 1966 general election.
See: Statutes of Nevada 1963, p. 1421; Statutes of Nevada 1965, p. 1495. The
section as amended in 1910 and repealed in 1966 read: “The Legislature shall
provide by law for the payment of an annual poll tax of not less than two, nor
exceeding four, dollars from each male resident in the State between the ages
of twenty-one and sixty years (uncivilized American Indians excepted) to be
expended for the maintenance and betterment of the public roads.”]

Sec: 8. Qualifications of voters on adoption or rejection of
constitution. All persons qualified by law to vote for
representatives to the General Assembly of the Territory of Nevada, on the
twenty first day of March A.D. Eighteen hundred and sixty four and all other
persons who may be lawful voters in said Territory on the first Wednesday of
September next following, shall be entitled to vote directly upon the question
of adopting or rejecting this Constitution.

Sec. 9. Recall of public officers: Procedure and limitations. Every
public officer in the State of Nevada is subject, as herein provided, to recall
from office by the registered voters of the state, or of the county, district,
or municipality which he represents. For this purpose, not less than
twenty-five percent (25%) of the number who actually voted in the state or in
the county, district, or municipality which he represents, at the election in
which he was elected, shall file their petition, in the manner herein provided,
demanding his recall by the people. They shall set forth in said petition, in
not exceeding two hundred (200) words, the reasons why said recall is demanded.
If he shall offer his resignation, it shall be accepted and take effect on the
day it is offered, and the vacancy thereby caused shall be filled in the manner
provided by law. If he shall not resign within five (5) days after the petition
is filed, a special election shall be ordered to be held within thirty (30)
days after the issuance of the call therefor, in the state, or county,
district, or municipality electing said officer, to determine whether the
people will recall said officer. On the ballot at said election shall be
printed verbatim as set forth in the recall petition, the reasons for demanding
the recall of said officer, and in not more than two hundred (200) words, the
officer’s justification of his course in office. He shall continue to perform
the duties of his office until the result of said election shall be finally declared.
Other candidates for the office may be nominated to be voted for at said
special election. The candidate who shall receive highest number of votes at
said special election shall be deemed elected for the remainder of the term,
whether it be the person against whom the recall petition was filed, or
another. The recall petition shall be filed with the officer with whom the
petition for nomination to such office shall be filed, and the same officer
shall order the special election when it is required. No such petition shall be
circulated or filed against any officer until he has actually held his office
six (6) months, save and except that it may be filed against a senator or
assemblyman in the legislature at any time after ten (10) days from the beginning
of the first session after his election. After one such petition and special
election, no further recall petition shall be filed against the same officer
during the term for which he was elected, unless such further petitioners shall
pay into the public treasury from which the expenses of said special election
have been paid, the whole amount paid out of said public treasury as expenses
for the preceding special election. Such additional legislation as may aid the
operation of this section shall be provided by law.

[Added
in 1912, amended in 1970 and 1996. The addition was proposed and passed by the
1909 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1911 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1912 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1909, p. 345; Statutes of Nevada 1911, p. 448. The first amendment was
proposed and passed by the 1967 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1969
legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1970 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1967, p. 1782; Statutes of Nevada 1969, p.
1663. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1993 legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1995 legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1996 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1993, p. 3135;
Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2887.]

Sec. 10. Limitation on contributions to campaign.

1. As used in this Section, “contribution”
includes the value of services provided in kind for which money would otherwise
be paid, such as paid polling and resulting data, paid direct mail, paid
solicitation by telephone, any paid campaign paraphernalia printed or otherwise
produced, and the use of paid personnel to assist in a campaign.

2. The Legislature shall provide by law for
the limitation of the total contribution by any natural or artificial person to
the campaign of any person for election to any office, except a federal office,
to $5,000 for the primary and $5,000 for the general election, and to the
approval or rejection of any question by the registered voters to $5,000,
whether the office sought or the question submitted is local or for the State
as a whole. The Legislature shall further provide for the punishment of the
contributor, the candidate, and any other knowing party to a violation of the
limit, as a felony.

[Added in 1996. Proposed by initiative petition
and approved and ratified by the people at the 1994 and 1996 General
Elections.]

1. The powers of the Government of the
State of Nevada shall be divided into three separate departments,—the
Legislative,—the Executive and the Judicial; and no persons charged with the
exercise of powers properly belonging to one of these departments shall
exercise any functions, appertaining to either of the others, except in the
cases expressly directed or permitted in this constitution.

2. If the legislature authorizes the
adoption of regulations by an executive agency which bind persons outside the
agency, the legislature may provide by law for:

(a) The review of these regulations by a
legislative agency before their effective date to determine initially whether
each is within the statutory authority for its adoption;

(b) The suspension by a legislative agency of any
such regulation which appears to exceed that authority, until it is reviewed by
a legislative body composed of members of the Senate and Assembly which is
authorized to act on behalf of both houses of the legislature; and

(c) The nullification of any such regulation by a
majority vote of that legislative body, whether or not the regulation was
suspended.

[Amended in 1996. Proposed and passed by the
1993 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1995 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1996 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1993,
p. 3082; Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2972.]

2. Biennial
sessions of Legislature: Commencement; limitation on duration; void actions;
submission of proposed executive budget. [Effective through November 21, 2016,
and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 8
(2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved and
ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

2. Annual
sessions of Legislature: Commencement; limitation on duration; void actions;
submission of proposed executive budget and proposed appropriations or
revisions to budget. [Effective November 22, 2016, if the provisions of Senate
Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature
and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

2A. Special
sessions of Legislature: Procedure for convening; precedence; limitations on
business and duration; void actions.

3. Members of
assembly: Election and term of office; eligibility for office.

32. County
officers: Power of legislature; election, duties and compensation; duties of
county clerks.

33. Compensation
of members of Legislature; payment for postage, stationery and other expenses;
additional allowances for officers. [Effective through November 21, 2016, and
after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013)
are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved and ratified by
the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

33. Compensation
of members of Legislature; payment for expenses of members; additional
allowances for officers. [Effective November 22, 2016, if the provisions of
Senate Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015
Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General
Election.]

Section. 1. Legislative power vested in senate and assembly. The
Legislative authority of this State shall be vested in a Senate and Assembly
which shall be designated “The Legislature of the State of Nevada” and the
sessions of such Legislature shall be held at the seat of government of the
State.

Sec. 2. Biennial sessions of Legislature: Commencement; limitation on
duration; void actions; submission of proposed executive budget. [Effective
through November 21, 2016, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate
Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature
and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

1. The sessions of the Legislature shall
be biennial, and shall commence on the 1st Monday of February following the
election of members of the Assembly, unless the Governor of the State or the
members of the Legislature shall, in the interim, convene the Legislature by
proclamation or petition.

2. The Legislature shall adjourn sine die
each regular session not later than midnight Pacific time at the end of the
120th consecutive calendar day of that session, inclusive of the day on which
that session commences. Any legislative action taken after midnight Pacific
time at the end of the 120th consecutive calendar day of that session is void,
unless the legislative action is conducted during a special session.

3. The Governor shall submit the proposed
executive budget to the Legislature not later than 14 calendar days before the
commencement of each regular session.

4. For the purposes of this section,
“midnight Pacific time” must be determined based on the actual measure of time
that, on the final calendar day of the session, is being used and observed by
the general population as the uniform time for the portion of Nevada which lies
within the Pacific time zone, or any legal successor to the Pacific time zone,
and which includes the seat of government of this State as designated by
Section 1 of Article 15 of this Constitution. The Legislature and its members,
officers and employees shall not employ any device, pretense or fiction that
adjusts, evades or ignores this measure of time for the purpose of extending
the duration of the session.

[Amended in 1889, 1958, 1960, 1998 and 2012. The
first amendment was proposed and passed by the 1885 Legislature; agreed to and
passed by the 1887 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at a
special election held February 11, 1889. See: Statutes of Nevada 1885, p. 151;
Statutes of Nevada 1887, p. 165. The second amendment was proposed and passed
by the 1955 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1957 Legislature; and
approved and ratified by the people at the 1958 General Election. See: Statutes
of Nevada 1955, p. 946; Statutes of Nevada 1957, p. 793. The third amendment
was proposed by initiative petition and approved and ratified by the people at
the 1960 General Election. The fourth amendment was proposed and passed by the
1995 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1997 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1998 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1995,
p. 2971; Statutes of Nevada 1997, p. 3725.
The fifth amendment was proposed and passed by the 2009 Legislature; agreed to
and passed by the 2011 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at
the 2012 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2009, p.
3285; Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3856.]

Sec. 2. Annual
sessions of Legislature: Commencement; limitation on duration; void actions;
submission of proposed executive budget and proposed appropriations or
revisions to budget. [Effective November 22, 2016, if the provisions of Senate
Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature
and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

1. The regular sessions of the Legislature
shall be annual as set forth in this section, but the Governor of the State or
the members of the Legislature may, on extraordinary occasions in the interim between
regular sessions, convene the Legislature by proclamation or petition in
special sessions only as authorized by this Constitution.

2. In each odd-numbered year, the Legislature
shall commence the regular session on the first Monday of February and shall
adjourn sine die not later than midnight Pacific time at the end of the 90th
legislative day or the 120th consecutive calendar day of that session, whichever
occurs first, inclusive of the day on which that session commences. Any
legislative action taken after midnight Pacific time at the end of the 90th
legislative day or the 120th consecutive calendar day of that session,
whichever occurs first, is void, unless the legislative action is taken during
a special session.

3. In each even-numbered year, the
Legislature shall commence the regular session on the first Tuesday of March
and shall adjourn sine die not later than midnight Pacific time at the end of
the 30th legislative day or the 45th consecutive calendar day of that session,
whichever occurs first, inclusive of the day on which that session commences.
Any legislative action taken after midnight Pacific time at the end of the 30th
legislative day or the 45th consecutive calendar day of that session, whichever
occurs first, is void, unless the legislative action is taken during a special
session.

4. The Governor shall submit to the
Legislature:

(a) The proposed executive budget not later than
14 calendar days before the commencement of each regular session held in an
odd-numbered year.

(b) Any proposed appropriations or proposed
revisions to the executive budget not later than 14 calendar days before the
commencement of each regular session held in an even-numbered year.

5. For the purposes of this section:

(a) “Legislative day” means any calendar day on
which either House of the Legislature is in session or any legislative
committee holds a meeting during a session.

(b) “Midnight Pacific time” must be determined
based on the actual measure of time that, on the final calendar or legislative
day of the session, whichever occurs first, is being used and observed by the
general population as the uniform time for the portion of Nevada which lies
within the Pacific time zone, or any legal successor to the Pacific time zone,
and which includes the seat of government of this State as designated by Section
1 of Article 15 of this Constitution. The Legislature and its members, officers
and employees shall not employ any device, pretense or fiction that adjusts,
evades or ignores this measure of time for the purpose of extending the
duration of the session.

[Amended in 1889, 1958, 1960, 1998 and 2012. The
first amendment was proposed and passed by the 1885 Legislature; agreed to and
passed by the 1887 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at a
special election held February 11, 1889. See: Statutes of Nevada 1885, p. 151;
Statutes of Nevada 1887, p. 165. The second amendment was proposed and passed
by the 1955 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1957 Legislature; and
approved and ratified by the people at the 1958 General Election. See: Statutes
of Nevada 1955, p. 946; Statutes of Nevada 1957, p. 793. The third amendment
was proposed by initiative petition and approved and ratified by the people at
the 1960 General Election. The fourth amendment was proposed and passed by the
1995 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1997 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1998 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1995,
p. 2971; Statutes of Nevada 1997, p. 3725.
The fifth amendment was proposed and passed by the 2009 Legislature; agreed to
and passed by the 2011 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at
the 2012 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2009, p.
3285; Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3856.]—(Proposed amendment passed by the 2013 Legislature; effective
November 22, 2016, if agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved
and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada
2013, p.
3980.)

Sec. 2A. Special sessions of Legislature: Procedure for convening;
precedence; limitations on business and duration; void actions.

1. The Legislature may be convened, on
extraordinary occasions, upon a petition signed by two-thirds of the members
elected to each House of the Legislature. A petition must specify the business
to be transacted during the special session, indicate a date on or before which
the Legislature is to convene and be transmitted to the Secretary of State.
Upon receipt of one or more substantially similar petitions signed, in the
aggregate, by the required number of members, calling for a special session,
the Secretary of State shall notify all members of the Legislature and the
Governor that a special session will be convened pursuant to this section.

2. At a special session convened pursuant
to this section, the Legislature shall not introduce, consider or pass any
bills except those related to the business specified in the petition and those
necessary to provide for the expenses of the session.

3. A special session convened pursuant to
this section takes precedence over a special session convened by the Governor
pursuant to Section 9 of Article 5 of this Constitution, unless otherwise
provided in the petition convening the special session pursuant to this
section.

4. The Legislature may provide by law for
the procedure for convening a special session pursuant to this section.

5. Except as otherwise provided in this
subsection, the Legislature shall adjourn sine die a special session convened
pursuant to this section not later than midnight Pacific time at the end of the
20th consecutive calendar day of that session, inclusive of the day on which
that session commences. Any legislative action taken after midnight Pacific
time at the end of the 20th consecutive calendar day of that session is void.
This subsection does not apply to a special session that is convened to conduct
proceedings for:

(a) Impeachment or removal from office of the
Governor and other state and judicial officers pursuant to Article 7 of this
Constitution; or

(b) Expulsion from office of a member of the
Legislature pursuant to Section 6 of Article 4 of this Constitution.

6. For the purposes of this section,
“midnight Pacific time” must be determined based on the actual measure of time
that, on the final calendar day of the session, is being used and observed by
the general population as the uniform time for the portion of Nevada which lies
within the Pacific time zone, or any legal successor to the Pacific time zone,
and which includes the seat of government of this State as designated by
Section 1 of Article 15 of this Constitution. The Legislature and its members,
officers and employees shall not employ any device, pretense or fiction that
adjusts, evades or ignores this measure of time for the purpose of extending
the duration of the session.

[Added in 2012. Proposed and passed by the 2009
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2011 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 2012 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2009, p.
3284; Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3855.]

Sec. 3. Members of assembly: Election and term of office; eligibility
for office.

1. The members of the Assembly shall be
chosen biennially by the qualified electors of their respective districts, on
the Tuesday next after the first Monday in November and their term of Office
shall be two years from the day next after their election.

2. No person may be elected or appointed
as a member of the Assembly who has served in that Office, or at the expiration
of his current term if he is so serving will have served, 12 years or more,
from any district of this State.

[Amended in 1996. Proposed by initiative
petition and approved and ratified by the people at the 1994 and 1996 General
Elections.]

Sec. 4. Senators: Election and term of office; eligibility for office.

1. Senators shall be chosen at the same
time and places as members of the Assembly by the qualified electors of their
respective districts, and their term of Office shall be four years from the day
next after their election.

2. No person may be elected or appointed
as a Senator who has served in that Office, or at the expiration of his current
term if he is so serving will have served, 12 years or more, from any district
of this State.

[Amended in 1996. Proposed by initiative
petition and approved and ratified by the people at the 1994 and 1996 General
Elections.]

Sec. 5. Number of Senators and members of Assembly; apportionment. Senators
and members of the Assembly shall be duly qualified electors in the respective
counties and districts which they represent, and the number of Senators shall
not be less than one-third nor more than one-half of that of the members of the
Assembly.

It shall be the mandatory duty of the Legislature at
its first session after the taking of the decennial census of the United States
in the year 1950, and after each subsequent decennial census, to fix by law the
number of Senators and Assemblymen, and apportion them among the several
counties of the State, or among legislative districts which may be established
by law, according to the number of inhabitants in them, respectively.

[Amended in 1950 and 1970. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1947 legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1949 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1950 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1947, p. 881; Statutes of Nevada 1949, p.
685. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1967 legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1969 legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1970 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1967, p. 1797;
Statutes of Nevada 1969, p. 1723.]

Sec: 6. Power of houses to judge qualifications, elections and returns
of members; selection of officers; rules of proceedings; punishment of members. Each
House shall judge of the qualifications, elections and returns of its own members,
choose its own officers (except the President of the Senate), determine the
rules of its proceedings and may punish its members for disorderly conduct, and
with the concurrence of two thirds of all the members elected, expel a member.

Sec: 7. Punishment of nonmember. Either House,
during the session, may punish, by imprisonment, any person not a member, who
shall have been guilty of disrespect to the House by disorderly or contemptuous
behavior in its presence; but such imprisonment shall not extend beyond the
final adjournment of the session.

Sec: 8. Senators and members of Assembly ineligible for certain offices. No
Senator or member of Assembly shall, during the term for which he shall have
been elected, nor for one year thereafter be appointed to any civil office of
profit under this State which shall have been created, or the emoluments of
which shall have been increased during such term, except such office as may be
filled by elections by the people.

Sec: 9. Federal officers ineligible for state office; exceptions. No
person holding any lucrative office under the Government of the United States
or any other power, shall be eligible to any civil office of Profit under this
State; Provided, that Post-Masters whose compensation does not exceed Five
Hundred dollars per annum, or commissioners of deeds, shall not be deemed as
holding a lucrative office.

Sec: 10. Embezzler of public money ineligible for office;
disqualification for bribery. Any person who shall be
convicted of the embezzlement, or defalcation of the public funds of this State
or who may be convicted of having given or offered a bribe to procure his
election or appointment to office, or received a bribe to aid in the
procurement of office for any other person, shall be disqualified from holding
any office of profit or trust in this State; and the Legislature shall, as soon
as practicable, provide by law for the punishment of such defalcation, bribery,
or embezzlement as a felony.

Sec: 11. Privilege of members: Freedom from arrest on civil process. Members
of the Legislature shall be privileged from arrest on civil process during the
session of the Legislature, and for fifteen days next before the commencement
of each session.

Sec. 12. Vacancy. In case of the death or resignation
of any member of the legislature, either senator or assemblyman, the county
commissioners of the county from which such member was elected shall appoint a
person of the same political party as the party which elected such senator or
assemblyman to fill such vacancy; provided, that this section shall
apply only in cases where no biennial election or any regular election at which
county officers are to [be] elected takes place between the time of such death
or resignation and the next succeeding session of the legislature.

[Amended in 1922 and 1944. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1919 legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1921 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1922 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1919, p. 478; Statutes of Nevada 1921, p.
412. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1941 legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1943 legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1944 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1941, p. 563;
Statutes of Nevada 1943, p. 311.]

Sec: 13. Quorum; compelling attendance. A majority of
all the members elected to each House shall constitute a quorum to transact
business, but a smaller number may adjourn, from day to day and may compel the
attendance of absent members, in such manner, and under such penalties as each
house may prescribe[.]

Sec: 14. Journal. Each House shall keep a journal of
its own proceedings which shall be published and the yeas and nays of the
members of either house on any question shall at the desire of any three members
present, be entered on the journal.

Sec. 15. Open sessions and meetings; adjournment for more than 3 days or
to another place. The doors of each House shall be kept
open during its session, and neither shall, without the consent of the other,
adjourn for more than three days nor to any other place than that in which they
may be holding their sessions. The meetings of all legislative committees must
be open to the public, except meetings held to consider the character, alleged
misconduct, professional competence, or physical or mental health of a person.

[Amended in 1994. Proposed and passed by the
1991 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1993 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1994 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1991,
p. 2573; Statutes of Nevada 1993, p. 2974.]

Sec: 16. Bills may originate in either house; amendment. Any
bill may originate in either House of the Legislature, and all bills passed by
one may be amended in the other.

Sec: 17. Act to embrace one subject only; title; amendment. Each
law enacted by the Legislature shall embrace but one subject, and matter,
properly connected therewith, which subject shall be briefly expressed in the
title; and no law shall be revised or amended by reference to its title only;
but, in such case, the act as revised or section as amended, shall be
re-enacted and published at length.

Sec. 18. Reading of bill; voting on final passage; number of members
necessary to pass bill or joint resolution; signatures; referral of certain
measures to voters; consent calendar.

1. Every bill, except a bill placed on a
consent calendar adopted as provided in subsection 4, must be read by sections
on three several days, in each House, unless in case of emergency, two thirds
of the House where such bill is pending shall deem it expedient to dispense
with this rule. The reading of a bill by sections, on its final passage, shall
in no case be dispensed with, and the vote on the final passage of every bill
or joint resolution shall be taken by yeas and nays to be entered on the
journals of each House. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a majority
of all the members elected to each House is necessary to pass every bill or
joint resolution, and all bills or joint resolutions so passed, shall be signed
by the presiding officers of the respective Houses and by the Secretary of the
Senate and Clerk of the Assembly.

2. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 3, an affirmative vote of not fewer than two-thirds of the members
elected to each House is necessary to pass a bill or joint resolution which
creates, generates, or increases any public revenue in any form, including but
not limited to taxes, fees, assessments and rates, or changes in the
computation bases for taxes, fees, assessments and rates.

3. A majority of all of the members
elected to each House may refer any measure which creates, generates, or
increases any revenue in any form to the people of the State at the next
general election, and shall become effective and enforced only if it has been
approved by a majority of the votes cast on the measure at such election.

4. Each House may provide by rule for the
creation of a consent calendar and establish the procedure for the passage of
uncontested bills.

[Amended in 1976 and 1996. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1973 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1975 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1976 General
Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1973, p. 1946; Statutes of Nevada 1975, p.
1900. The second amendment was proposed by initiative petition and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1994 and 1996 General Elections.]

Section 19. Manner of drawing money from treasury. No
money shall be drawn from the treasury but in consequence of appropriations
made by law.

[Amended in 1954. Proposed and passed by the
1951 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1953 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1954 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1951, p. 584; Statutes of Nevada 1953, p. 717.]

Section 20. Certain local and special laws prohibited. The
legislature shall not pass local or special laws in any of the following
enumerated cases—that is to say:

Regulating the jurisdiction and duties of justices of
the peace and of constables, and fixing their compensation;

For the punishment of crimes and misdemeanors;

Regulating the practice of courts of justice;

Providing for changing the venue in civil and criminal
cases;

Granting divorces;

Changing the names of persons;

Vacating roads, town plots, streets, alleys, and public
squares;

Summoning and impaneling grand and petit juries, and
providing for their compensation;

Regulating county and township business;

Regulating the election of county and township
officers;

For the assessment and collection of taxes for state,
county, and township purposes;

Providing for opening and conducting elections of
state, county, or township officers, and designating the places of voting;

Providing for the sale of real estate belonging to
minors or other persons laboring under legal disabilities;

Giving effect to invalid deeds, wills, or other instruments;

Refunding money paid into the state treasury, or into
the treasury of any county;

Releasing the indebtedness, liability, or obligation of
any corporation, association, or person to the state, or to any county, town,
or city of this state; but nothing in this section shall be construed to deny
or restrict the power of the legislature to establish and regulate the
compensation and fees of county officers, to authorize and empower the boards
of county commissioners of the various counties of the state to establish and
regulate the compensation and fees of township officers in their respective
counties, to establish and regulate the rates of freight, passage, toll, and
charges of railroads, tollroads, ditch, flume, and tunnel companies incorporated
under the laws of this state or doing business therein.

[Amended in 1889, 1922 and 1926. The first
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1885 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1887 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at a special
election held February 11, 1889. See Statutes of Nevada 1885, p. 152; Statutes
of Nevada 1887, p. 166. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the
1919 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1921 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1922 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada
1919, p. 486; Statutes of Nevada 1921, p. 410. The third amendment was proposed
and passed by the 1923 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1925
Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1926 General
Election. See Statutes of Nevada 1923, p. 411; Statutes of Nevada 1925, p.
357.]

Sec: 21. General laws to have uniform application. In
all cases enumerated in the preceding section, and in all other cases where a
general law can be made applicable, all laws shall be general and of uniform
operation throughout the State.

Sec: 22. Suit against state. Provision may be made by
general law for bringing suit against the State as to all liabilities
originating after the adoption of this Constitution[.]

Sec: 23. Enacting clause; law to be enacted by bill. The
enacting clause of every law shall be as follows: “The people of the State of
Nevada represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows,” and no law
shall be enacted except by bill.

Sec: 24. Lotteries.

1. Except as otherwise provided in
subsection 2, no lottery may be authorized by this State, nor may lottery
tickets be sold.

2. The State and the political
subdivisions thereof shall not operate a lottery. The Legislature may authorize
persons engaged in charitable activities or activities not for profit to
operate a lottery in the form of a raffle or drawing on their own behalf. All
proceeds of the lottery, less expenses directly related to the operation of the
lottery, must be used only to benefit charitable or nonprofit activities in
this State. A charitable or nonprofit organization shall not employ or
otherwise engage any person to organize or operate its lottery for
compensation. The Legislature may provide by law for the regulation of such
lotteries.

[Amended in 1990. Proposed and passed by the
1987 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1989 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1990 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1987,
p. 2468; Statutes of Nevada 1989, p. 2249.]

Sec: 25. Uniform county and township government. The
Legislature shall establish a system of County and Township Government which
shall be uniform throughout the State.

Sec: 26. Boards of county commissioners: Election and duties. The
Legislature shall provide by law, for the election of a Board of County
Commissioners in each County, and such County Commissioners shall jointly and
individually perform such duties as may be prescribed by law.

Sec: 27. Disqualification of jurors; elections. Laws
shall be made to exclude from serving on juries, all persons not qualified
electors of this State, and all persons who shall have been convicted of
bribery, perjury, foregery [forgery,] larceny or other high crimes, unless
restored to civil rights; and laws shall be passed regulating elections, and
prohibiting under adequate penalties, all undue influence thereon from power,
bribery, tumult, or other improper practice.

Sec: 28. Compensation of legislative officers and employees; increase or
decrease of compensation. No money shall be drawn from the
State Treasury as salary or compensation to any officer or employee of the
Legislature, or either branch thereof, except in cases where such salary or
compensation has been fixed by a law in force prior to the election or
appointment of such officer or employee; and the salary or compensation so
fixed, shall neither be increased nor diminished so as to apply to any officer
or employee of the Legislature, or either branch thereof at such Session;
Provided, that this restriction shall not apply to the first session of the
Legislature.

Sec: 29. Duration of regular and special sessions. [Repealed
in 1958.]

[Sec. 29 of Art. 4 of the
original constitution was repealed by vote of the people at the 1958 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1955, p. 945; Statutes of Nevada 1957, p.
793. The original section read: “The first regular session of the Legislature
under this Constitution may extend to Ninety days, but no subsequent regular
session shall exceed sixty days, nor any special session convened by the
Governor exceed twenty days.”]

Sec: 30. Homesteads: Exemption from forced sale; joint consent required
for alienation; recording of declaration. A homestead as
provided by law, shall be exempt from forced sale under any process of law, and
shall not be alienated without the joint consent of husband and wife when that
relation exists; but no property shall be exempt from sale for taxes or for the
payment of obligations contracted for the purchase of said premises, or for the
erection of improvements thereon; Provided, the provisions of this Section
shall not apply to any process of law obtained by virtue of a lien given by the
consent of both husband and wife, and laws shall be enacted providing for the
recording of such homestead within the County in which the same shall be
situated[.]

Sec. 31. Property of married persons. All property,
both real and personal, of a married person owned or claimed by such person
before marriage, and that acquired afterward by gift, devise or descent, shall
be the separate property of such person. The legislature shall more clearly
define the rights of married persons in relation to their separate property and
other property.

[Amended in 1978. Proposed and passed by the
1975 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1977 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1978 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1975, p. 1917; Statutes of Nevada 1977, p. 1703.]

Sec. 32. County officers: Power of legislature; election, duties and
compensation; duties of county clerks. The Legislature
shall have power to increase, diminish, consolidate or abolish the following
county officers: County Clerks, County Recorders, Auditors, Sheriffs, District
Attorneys and Public Administrators. The Legislature shall provide for their
election by the people, and fix by law their duties and compensation. County
Clerks shall be ex-officio Clerks of the Courts of Record and of the Boards of
County Commissioners in and for their respective counties.

[Amended in 1889 and 1972. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1887 legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1889 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at a special election
held February 11, 1889. See: Statutes of Nevada 1887, p. 161; Statutes of
Nevada 1889, p. 151. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1969
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1971 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1972 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1969, p. 1723; Statutes of Nevada 1971, p. 2232.]

Sec. 33. Compensation of members of Legislature; payment for postage,
stationery and other expenses; additional allowances for officers. [Effective
through November 21, 2016, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate
Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature
and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]The members of the Legislature shall receive
for their services a compensation to be fixed by law and paid out of the public
treasury, for not to exceed 60 days during any regular session of the
Legislature and not to exceed 20 days during any special session; but no
increase of such compensation shall take effect during the term for which the
members of either house shall have been elected; Provided, that an
appropriation may be made for the payment of such actual expenses as members of
the Legislature may incur for postage, express charges, newspapers and
stationery not exceeding the sum of Sixty dollars for any general or special
session to each member; and Furthermore Provided, that the Speaker of the
Assembly, and Lieutenant Governor, as President of the Senate, shall each,
during the time of their actual attendance as such presiding officers receive
an additional allowance of two dollars per diem.

[Amended in 1958 and 2012. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1955 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1957 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1958 General
Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1955, p. 946; Statutes of Nevada 1957, p.
794. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 2009 Legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 2011 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 2012 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2009, p.
3285; Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3856.]

Sec. 33. Compensation of members of Legislature; payment for expenses of
members; additional allowances for officers. [Effective November 22, 2016, if
the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed
by the 2015 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016
General Election.]The members of
the Legislature shall receive for their services a compensation to be fixed by
law and paid out of the public treasury at regular intervals determined by law,
but no increase of such compensation shall take effect during the term for
which the members of either House shall have been elected; Provided, that an
appropriation may be made for the payment of such actual expenses as members of
the Legislature may incur for any regular or special session to each member;
and Furthermore Provided, that the Speaker of the Assembly and Lieutenant
Governor, as President of the Senate, shall each, during the time of their actual
attendance as such presiding officers, receive an additional allowance of two
dollars per diem.

[Amended in 1958 and 2012. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1955 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1957 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1958 General
Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1955, p. 946; Statutes of Nevada 1957, p.
794. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 2009 Legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 2011 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 2012 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2009, p.
3285; Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3856.]—(Proposed amendment passed by the 2013 Legislature; effective
November 22, 2016, if agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved
and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada
2013, p.
3981.)

Sec: 34. Election of United States Senators. [Repealed in 2004.]

[Sec. 34 of the original constitution was
repealed by vote of the people at the 2004 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 2001,
p. 3470; Statutes of Nevada 2003, p. 3727.
The original section read: “In all elections for United States Senators, such
elections shall be held in joint convention of both Houses of the Legislature.
It shall be the duty of the Legislature which convenes next preceding the
expiration of the term of such Senator, to elect his successor. If a vacancy in
such Senatorial representation from any cause occur, it shall be the duty of
the Legislature then in Session or at the succeeding Session thereof, to supply
such vacancy[.] If the Legislature shall at any time as herein provided, fail
to unite in a joint convention within twenty days after the commencement of the
Session of the Legislature for the election [of] such Senator it shall be the
duty of the Governor, by proclamation to convene the two Houses of the
Legislature in joint convention, within not less than five days nor exceeding
ten days from the publication of his proclamation, and the joint convention
when so assembled shall proceed to elect the Senator as herein provided.]

Sec: 35. Bills to be presented to governor; approval; disapproval and
reconsideration by legislature; failure of governor to return bill. Every
bill which may have passed the Legislature, shall, before it becomes a law be
presented to the Governor. If he approve it, he shall sign it, but if not he
shall return it with his objections, to the House in which it originated, which
House shall cause such objections to be entered upon its journal, and proceed
to reconsider it; If after such reconsideration it again pass both Houses by
yeas and nays, by a vote of two thirds of the members elected to each House it
shall become a law notwithstanding the Governors objections. If any bill shall
not be returned within five days after it shall have been presented to him
(Sunday excepted) exclusive of the day on which he received it, the same shall
be a law, in like manner as if he had signed it, unless the Legislature by its
final adjournment, prevent such return, in which case it shall be a law, unless
the Governor within ten days next after the adjournment (Sundays excepted)
shall file such bill with his objections thereto, in the office of the
Secretary of State, who shall lay the same before the Legislature at its next
Session, in like manner as if it had been returned by the Governor, and if the
same shall receive the vote of two-thirds of the members elected to each branch
of the Legislature, upon a vote taken by yeas and nays to be entered upon the
journals of each house, it shall become a law.

[Sec. 36.] Abolishment of county; approval of voters in county. The
legislature shall not abolish any county unless the qualified voters of the
county affected shall at a general or special election first approve such
proposed abolishment by a majority of all the voters voting at such election.
The legislature shall provide by law the method of initiating and conducting
such election.

[Added in 1940. Proposed and passed by the 1937
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1939 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1940 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1937, p. 564; Statutes of Nevada 1939, p. 360.]

Section 37.Continuity of government
in case of enemy attack; succession to public offices; legislative quorum
requirements; relocation of seat of government.The
legislature, in order to insure continuity of state and local governmental
operations in periods of emergency resulting from disasters caused by enemy
attack, shall have the power and the immediate duty to provide for immediate
and temporary succession to the powers and duties of public offices, of
whatever nature and whether filled by election or appointment, the incumbents
of which may become unavailable for carrying on the powers and duties of such
offices, and to adopt such other measures as may be necessary and proper for
insuring the continuity of governmental operations, including changes in quorum
requirements in the legislature and the relocation of the seat of government.
In the exercise of the powers hereby conferred, the legislature shall conform
to the requirements of this constitution except to the extent that in the
judgment of the legislature so to do would be impracticable or would admit of
undue delay.

[Added in 1964. Proposed and passed by the 1961
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1963 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1964 general election. See Statutes of Nevada
1961, p. 831; Statutes of Nevada 1963, p. 1416.]

Sec. 37[A]. Consolidation of city and county containing seat of government
into one municipal government; separate taxing districts. Notwithstanding
the general provisions of sections 20, 25, 26, and 36 of this article, the
legislature may by law consolidate into one municipal government, with one set
of officers, the city designated as the seat of government of this state and
the county in which such city is situated. Such consolidated municipality shall
be considered as a county for the purpose of representation in the legislature,
shall have all the powers conferred upon counties by this constitution or by
general law, and shall have such other powers as may be conferred by its
charter. Notwithstanding the general provisions of section 1 of article 10, the
legislature may create two or more separate taxing districts within such
consolidated municipality.

[Added in 1968. Proposed and passed by the 1965
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1967 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1968 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1965, p. 1515; Statutes of Nevada 1967, p. 1797.]

Sec. 38. Use of plant of genus Cannabis for medical purposes.

1. The legislature shall provide by law
for:

(a) The use by a patient, upon the advice of his
physician, of a plant of the genus Cannabis for the treatment or alleviation of
cancer, glaucoma, acquired immunodeficiency syndrome; severe, persistent nausea
of cachexia resulting from these or other chronic or debilitating medical
conditions; epilepsy and other disorders characterized by seizure; multiple
sclerosis and other disorders characterized by muscular spasticity; or other
conditions approved pursuant to law for such treatment.

(b) Restriction of the medical use of the plant
by a minor to require diagnosis and written authorization by a physician,
parental consent, and parental control of the acquisition and use of the plant.

(c) Protection of the plant and property related
to its use from forfeiture except upon conviction or plea of guilty or nolo
contendere for possession or use not authorized by or pursuant to this section.

(d) A registry of patients, and their attendants,
who are authorized to use the plant for a medical purpose, to which law
enforcement officers may resort to verify a claim of authorization and which is
otherwise confidential.

(e) Authorization of appropriate methods for
supply of the plant to patients authorized to use it.

2. This section does not:

(a) Authorize the use or possession of the plant
for a purpose other than medical or use for a medical purpose in public.

(b) Require reimbursement by an insurer for
medical use of the plant or accommodation of medical use in a place of
employment.

[Added in 2000. Proposed by initiative petition
and approved and ratified by the people at the 1998 and 2000 general
elections.]

Section. 1. Supreme executive power vested in governor. The
supreme executive power of this State, shall be vested in a Chief Magistrate
who shall be Governor of the State of Nevada.

Sec: 2. Election and term of governor. The Governor
shall be elected by the qualified electors at the time and places of voting for
members of the Legislature, and shall hold his office for Four Years from the
time of his installation, and until his successor shall be qualified.

Sec. 3. Eligibility; qualifications; number of terms. No
person shall be eligible to the Office of Governor, who is not a qualified
elector, and who, at the time of such election, has not attained the age of
twenty five years; and who shall not have been a citizen resident of this State
for two years next preceding the election; nor shall any person be elected to
the Office of Governor more than twice; and no person who has held the Office
of Governor, or acted as Governor for more than two years of a term to which
some other person was elected Governor shall be elected to the Office of
Governor more than once.

[Amended in 1970. Proposed and passed by the
1967 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1969 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1970 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1967, p. 1794; Statutes of Nevada 1969, p. 1668.]

Section 4. Returns of general election transmitted to secretary of state;
canvass by supreme court; declaration of election. The
returns of every election for United States senator and member of Congress,
district and state officers, and for and against any questions submitted to the
electors of the State of Nevada, voted for at the general election, shall be
sealed up and transmitted to the seat of government, directed to the secretary
of state, and the chief justice of the supreme court, and the associate
justices, or a majority thereof, shall meet at the office of the secretary of
state, on a day to be fixed by law, and open and canvass the election returns
for United States senator and member of Congress, district and state officers,
and for and against any questions submitted to the electors of the State of
Nevada, and forthwith declare the result and publish the names of the persons
elected and the results of the vote cast upon any question submitted to the
electors of the State of Nevada. The persons having the highest number of votes
for the respective offices shall be declared elected, but in case any two or
more have an equal and the highest number of votes for the same office, the
legislature shall, by joint vote of both houses, elect one of said persons to
fill said office.

[Amended in 1940. Proposed and passed by the
1937 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1939 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1940 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1937, p. 553; Statutes of Nevada 1939, p. 361.]

Sec: 5. Governor is commander in chief of state military forces. The
Governor shall be Commander in Chief of the Military forces of this State
except when they shall be called into the service of the United States.

Sec: 6. Transaction of executive business; reports of executive
officers. He shall transact all executive business with the
Officers of the Government Civil and Military; and may require information in
writing, from the Officers of the Executive Department, upon any subject
relating to the duties of their respective Offices.

Sec: 7. Responsibility for execution of laws. He
shall see that the laws are faithfully executed.

Sec: 8. Vacancies filled by governor. When any
Office shall, from any cause become vacant and no mode is provided by the
Constitution and laws for filling such vacancy, the Governor shall have the
power to fill such vacancy by granting a commission which shall expire at the
next election and qualification of the person elected to such Office.

Sec. 9. Special sessions of Legislature: Authority of Governor;
limitations on business and duration; void actions.

1. Except as otherwise provided in Section
2A of Article 4 of this Constitution, the Governor may, on extraordinary
occasions, convene the Legislature by Proclamation and shall state to both
houses, when organized, the business for which they have been specially
convened.

2. At a special session convened pursuant
to this section, the Legislature shall not introduce, consider or pass any
bills except those related to the business for which the Legislature has been
specially convened and those necessary to provide for the expenses of the
session.

3. Except as otherwise provided in this
subsection, the Legislature shall adjourn sine die a special session convened
pursuant to this section not later than midnight Pacific time at the end of the
20th consecutive calendar day of that session, inclusive of the day on which
that session commences. Any legislative action taken after midnight Pacific
time at the end of the 20th consecutive calendar day of that session is void.
This subsection does not apply to a special session that is convened to conduct
proceedings for:

(a) Impeachment or removal from office of the
Governor and other state and judicial officers pursuant to Article 7 of this
Constitution; or

(b) Expulsion from office of a member of the
Legislature pursuant to Section 6 of Article 4 of this Constitution.

4. For the purposes of this section,
“midnight Pacific time” must be determined based on the actual measure of time
that, on the final calendar day of the session, is being used and observed by
the general population as the uniform time for the portion of Nevada which lies
within the Pacific time zone, or any legal successor to the Pacific time zone,
and which includes the seat of government of this State as designated by
Section 1 of Article 15 of this Constitution. The Legislature and its members,
officers and employees shall not employ any device, pretense or fiction that
adjusts, evades or ignores this measure of time for the purpose of extending
the duration of the session.

[Amended in 2012. Proposed and passed by the
2009 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2011 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 2012 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada
2009, p.
3286; Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3857.]

Sec: 10. Governor’s message. He shall communicate by
Message to the Legislature at every regular Session the condition of the State
and recommend such measures as he may deem expedient[.]

Sec: 11. Adjournment of legislature by governor. In
case of a disagreement between the two Houses with respect to the time of
adjournment, the Governor shall have power to adjourn the Legislature to such
time as he may think proper; Provided, it be not beyond the time fixed for the
meeting of the next Legislature.

Sec: 12. Person holding federal office ineligible for office of governor. No
person shall, while holding any office under the United States Government hold
the office of Governor, except as herein expressly provided.

Sec: 13. Pardons, reprieves and commutations of sentence; remission of
fines and forfeitures. The Governor shall have the power to
suspend the collection of fines and forfeitures and grant reprieves for a
period not exceeding sixty days dating from the time of conviction, for all
offenses, except in cases of impeachment. Upon conviction for treason he shall
have power to suspend the execution of the sentence until the case shall be
reported to the Legislature at its next meeting, when the Legislature shall
either pardon, direct the execution of the sentence, or grant a further
reprieve. And if the Legislature should fail or refuse to make final
disposition of such case, the sentence shall be enforced at such time and place
as the Governor by his order may direct. The Governor shall communicate to the
Legislature, at the beginning of every session, every case of fine or
forfeiture remitted, or reprieve, pardon, or commutation granted, stating the
name of the convict, the crime of which he was convicted, the Sentence, its
date, and the date of the remission, commutation, pardon or reprieve.

1. The governor, justices of the supreme
court, and attorney general, or a major part of them, of whom the governor
shall be one, may, upon such conditions and with such limitations and
restrictions as they may think proper, remit fines and forfeitures, commute
punishments, except as provided in subsection 2, and grant pardons, after
convictions, in all cases, except treason and impeachments, subject to such
regulations as may be provided by law relative to the manner of applying for
pardons.

2. Except as may be provided by law, a
sentence of death or a sentence of life imprisonment without possibility of
parole may not be commuted to a sentence which would allow parole.

3. The legislature is authorized to pass
laws conferring upon the district courts authority to suspend the execution of
sentences, fix the conditions for, and to grant probation, and within the
minimum and maximum periods authorized by law, fix the sentence to be served by
the person convicted of crime in said courts.

[Amended in 1950 and 1982. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1947 legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1949 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1950 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1947, p. 875; Statutes of Nevada 1949, p.
684. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1979 legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1981 legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1982 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1979, p. 2005;
Statutes of Nevada 1981, p. 2097.]

Sec: 15. The Great Seal. There shall be a Seal of
this State, which shall be kept by the Governor and used by him Officially, and
shall be called “The Great Seal of the State of Nevada.”

Sec: 16. Grants and commissions: Signatures and seal. All
grants and commissions shall be in the name and by the authority of the State
of Nevada, sealed with the Great Seal of the State, signed by the Governor and
counter-signed by the Secretary of State.

Sec: 17. Election, term, qualifications and duties of Lieutenant Governor;
President of Senate; President Pro-tempore of Senate to act as Governor in
certain circumstances. A Lieutenant Governor shall be
elected at the same time and places and in the same manner as the Governor and
his term of Office, and his eligibility, shall also be the same. He shall be
President of the Senate, but shall only have a casting vote therein. If during
a Vacancy of the office of Governor, the Lieutenant Governor shall be
impeached, displaced, resign, die, or become incapable of performing the duties
of the office, or be absent from the State, the President pro-tempore of
the Senate shall act as Governor until the vacancy be filled or the disability
cease.

Sec: 18. Vacancy in office of governor; duties to devolve upon lieutenant
governor. In case of the impeachment of the Governor, or
his removal from Office, death, inability to discharge the duties of the said
Office, resignation or absence from the State, the powers and duties of the
Office shall devolve upon the Lieutenant Governor for the residue of the term,
or until the disability shall cease. But when the Governor shall with the
consent of the Legislature be out of the State, in time of War, and at the head
of any military force thereof, he shall continue Commander in Chief of the
military forces of the State.

Sec. 19. Other state officers: Election and term of office; eligibility
for office.

1. A Secretary of State, a Treasurer, a
Controller, and an Attorney General, shall be elected at the same time and
places, and in the same manner as the Governor. The term of office of each
shall be the same as is prescribed for the Governor.

2. Any elector shall be eligible to any of
these offices, but no person may be elected to any of them more than twice, or
more than once if he has previously held the office by election or appointment.

[Amended in 1954 and 1996. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1951 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1953 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1954 General
Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1951, p. 581; Statutes of Nevada 1953, p.
715. The second amendment was proposed by initiative petition and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1994 and 1996 General Elections.]

Sec: 20. Secretary of State: Duties. The Secretary of
State shall keep a true record of the Official Acts of the Legislative and
Executive Departments of the Government, and shall when required, lay the same
and all matters relative thereto, before either branch of the Legislature.

Sec: 21. Board of state prison commissioners; board of examiners;
examination of claims. The Governor, Secretary of State and
Attorney General shall constitute a Board of State Prison Commissioners, which
Board shall have such supervision of all matters connected with the State
Prison as may be provided by law. They shall also constitute a Board of
Examiners, with power to examine all claims against the State (except salaries
or compensation of Officers fixed by law) and perform such other duties as may
be prescribed by law, and no claim against the State (except salaries or
compensation of Officers fixed by law) shall be passed upon by the Legislature
without having been considered and acted upon by said “Board of Examiners.”

Section 22. Duties of certain state officers. The
Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Controller, Attorney General, and
Superintendent of public instruction shall perform such other duties as may be
prescribed by law.

[Amended in 1954. Proposed and passed by the
1951 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1953 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1954 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1951, p. 581; Statutes of Nevada 1953, p. 716.]

ARTICLE. 6. - Judicial Department.

Sec.1. Judicial power vested in court system.
[Effective through November 24, 2014, and after that date unless the provisions
of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2014 General Election.]

1. Judicial
power vested in court system. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions
of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2014 General Election.]

2. Supreme
court: Composition; staggered terms of justices; holding of court by panels of
justices and full court.

3A. Court of
appeals: Composition; panel of judges; appointment, election and terms of
judges; chief judge; service of judges as supplemental district judges.
[Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No.
14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General
Election.]

4. Jurisdiction
of Supreme Court; appointment of district judge to sit for disabled or
disqualified justice. [Effective through November 24, 2014, and after that date
unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and
ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

4. Jurisdiction
of Supreme Court and court of appeals; appointment of judge to sit for disabled
or disqualified justice or judge. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the
provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified
by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

7. Terms of
courts. [Effective through November 24, 2014, and after that date unless the
provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified
by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

7. Terms of
courts. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of Senate Joint
Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014
General Election.]

8. Number,
qualifications, terms of office and jurisdiction of justices of the peace;
appeals; courts of record. [Effective through November 24, 2014, and after that
date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are
approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

8. Number,
qualifications, terms of office and jurisdiction of justices of the peace;
appeals; courts of record. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of
Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters
at the 2014 General Election.]

11. Justices
and judges ineligible for other offices. [Effective through November 24, 2014,
and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14
(2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

11. Justices
and judges ineligible for other offices. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the
provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified
by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

12. Judge not
to charge jury respecting matters of fact; statement of testimony and
declaration of law.

15. Compensation
of justices and judges. [Effective through November 24, 2014, and after that
date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are
approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

15. Compensation
of justices and judges. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of
Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters
at the 2014 General Election.]

20. Filling of
vacancies occurring before expiration of term of office in Supreme Court or
among district judges; Commission on Judicial Selection. [Effective through
November 24, 2014, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint
Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014
General Election.]

20. Filling of
vacancies occurring before expiration of term of office in Supreme Court or
court of appeals or among district judges; Commission on Judicial Selection.
[Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No.
14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General
Election.]

21. Commission
on Judicial Discipline; Code of Judicial Conduct. [Effective through November
24, 2014, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution
No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General
Election.]

21. Commission
on Judicial Discipline; Code of Judicial Conduct. [Effective November 25, 2014,
if the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and
ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

Section 1. Judicial power vested in court system. [Effective through
November 24, 2014, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint
Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014
General Election.]The judicial
power of this State shall be vested in a court system, comprising a Supreme
Court, district courts, and justices of the peace. The Legislature may also
establish, as part of the system, courts for municipal purposes only in
incorporated cities and towns.

[Amended in 1976. Proposed and passed by the
1973 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1975 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1976 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1973, p. 1960; Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1934.]

Section 1. Judicial
power vested in court system. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions
of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2014 General Election.]The
judicial power of this State is vested in a court system, comprising a Supreme
Court, a court of appeals, district courts and justices of the peace. The
Legislature may also establish, as part of the system, courts for municipal
purposes only in incorporated cities and towns.

[Amended in 1976. Proposed and passed by the
1973 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1975 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1976 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1973, p. 1960; Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1934.]—(Proposed amendment
passed by the 2011 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013 Legislature;
effective November 25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014
General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3836; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p. 3968.)

Sec. 2. Supreme court: Composition; staggered terms of justices; holding
of court by panels of justices and full court.

1. The Supreme Court consists of the Chief
Justice and two or more associate justices, as may be provided by law. In
increasing or diminishing the number of associate justices, the Legislature
shall provide for the arrangement of their terms so that an equal number of
terms, as nearly as may be, expire every 2 years.

2. The Legislature may provide by law:

(a) If the Court consists of more than five
justices, for the hearing and decision of cases by panels of no fewer than
three justices, the resolution by the full Court of any conflicts between
decisions so rendered, and the kinds of cases which must be heard by the full
Court.

(b) For the places of holding court by panels of
justices if established, and by the full Court.

[Amended in 1976. Proposed and passed by the
1973 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1975 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1976 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1973, p. 1952; Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1980.]

Sec: 3. Justices of Supreme Court: Election; terms; Chief Justice.The justices of the Supreme Court, shall be
elected by the qualified electors of the State at the general election, and
shall hold office for the term of six years from and including the first Monday
of January next succeeding their election; provided, that there shall be
elected, at the first election under this Constitution, three justices of the Supreme
Court who shall hold office from and including the first Monday of December
A.D., eighteen hundred and sixty four, and continue in office thereafter, two,
four and six years respectively, from and including the first Monday of January
next suceeding [succeeding] their election. They shall meet as soon as
practicable after their election and qualification, and at their first meeting
shall determine by lot, the term of office each shall fill, and the justice
drawing the shortest term shall be Chief Justice, and after the expiration of
his term, the one having the next shortest term shall be Chief Justice, after
which the senior justice in commission shall be Chief Justice; and in case the
commission of any two or more of said justices shall bear the same date, they
shall determine by lot, who shall be Chief Justice.

Sec. 3A. Court of appeals: Composition; panel of judges; appointment,
election and terms of judges; chief judge; service of judges as supplemental
district judges. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of Senate
Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the
2014 General Election.]

1. The court of appeals consists of three
judges or such greater number as the Legislature may provide by law. If the
number of judges is so increased, the Supreme Court must provide by rule for
the assignment of each appeal to a panel of three judges for decision.

2. After the initial terms, each judge of
the court of appeals must be elected by the qualified electors of this State at
the general election for a term of 6 years beginning on the first Monday of
January next after the election. The initial three judges of the court of
appeals must be appointed by the Governor from among three nominees selected
for each individual seat by the permanent Commission on Judicial Selection
described in subsection 3 of section 20 of this Article. After the expiration
of 30 days from the date on which the permanent Commission on Judicial
Selection has delivered to the Governor its list of nominees for the initial
judges, if the Governor has not made the appointments required by this Section,
the Governor shall make no other appointment to any public office until the
Governor has appointed a judge from the list submitted. The term of the initial
judges is 2 years beginning on the first Monday of January next after the
effective date of this Section, and an initial judge may succeed himself. If
there is an increase in the number of judges, each additional judge must be
elected by the qualified electors of this State at the first general election
following the increase for a term of 6 years beginning on the first Monday of
January next after the election.

3. The Chief Justice of the Supreme Court
shall appoint one of the judges of the court of appeals to be chief judge. The
chief judge serves a term of 4 years, except that the term of the initial chief
judge is 2 years. The chief judge may succeed himself. The chief judge may
resign the position of chief judge without resigning from the court of appeals.

4. The Supreme Court shall provide by rule
for the assignment of one or more judges of the court of appeals to devote a
part of their time to serve as supplemental district judges, where needed.

(Proposed addition passed by the 2011
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013 Legislature; effective November
25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.
See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3835; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3968.)

Sec. 4. Jurisdiction of Supreme Court; appointment of district judge to
sit for disabled or disqualified justice. [Effective through November 24, 2014,
and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14
(2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.] The
Supreme Court shall have appellate jurisdiction in all civil cases arising in
district courts, and also on questions of law alone in all criminal cases in
which the offense charged is within the original jurisdiction of the district
courts. The court shall also have power to issue writs of mandamus,
certiorari, prohibition, quo warranto, and habeas corpus and
also all writs necessary or proper to the complete exercise of its appellate
jurisdiction. Each of the justices shall have power to issue writs of habeas
corpus to any part of the State, upon petition by, or on behalf of, any
person held in actual custody, and may make such writs returnable, before
himself or the Supreme Court, or before any district court in the State or
before any judge of said courts.

In case of the disability or disqualification, for any
cause, of the Chief Justice or one of the associate justices of the Supreme
Court, or any two of them, the Governor is authorized and empowered to
designate any district judge or judges to sit in the place or places of such
disqualified or disabled justice or justices, and said judge or judges so
designated shall receive their actual expense of travel and otherwise while
sitting in the Supreme Court.

[Amended in 1920, 1976 and 1978. The first
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1917 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1919 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1920
General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1917, p. 491; Statutes of Nevada
1919, p. 485. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1973
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1975 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1976 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1973, p. 1953; Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1981. The third amendment was
proposed and passed by the 1975 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1977
Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1978 General
Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1951; Statutes of Nevada 1977, p.
1690.]

Sec. 4. Jurisdiction
of Supreme Court and court of appeals; appointment of judge to sit for disabled
or disqualified justice or judge. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the
provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified
by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

1. The Supreme Court and the court of
appeals have appellate jurisdiction in all civil cases arising in district
courts, and also on questions of law alone in all criminal cases in which the
offense charged is within the original jurisdiction of the district courts. The
Supreme Court shall fix by rule the jurisdiction of the court of appeals and
shall provide for the review, where appropriate, of appeals decided by the
court of appeals. The Supreme Court and the court of appeals have power to
issue writs of mandamus, certiorari, prohibition, quo warranto
and habeas corpus and also all writs necessary or proper to the complete
exercise of their jurisdiction. Each justice of the Supreme Court and judge of
the court of appeals may issue writs of habeas corpus to any part of the
State, upon petition by, or on behalf of, any person held in actual custody in
this State and may make such writs returnable before the issuing justice or
judge or the court of which the justice or judge is a member, or before any
district court in the State or any judge of a district court.

2. In case of the disability or
disqualification, for any cause, of a justice of the Supreme Court, the
Governor may designate a judge of the court of appeals or a district judge to
sit in the place of the disqualified or disabled justice. The judge designated
by the Governor is entitled to receive his actual expense of travel and
otherwise while sitting in the Supreme Court.

3. In the case of the disability or
disqualification, for any cause, of a judge of the court of appeals, the
Governor may designate a district judge to sit in the place of the disabled or
disqualified judge. The judge whom the Governor designates is entitled to
receive his actual expense of travel and otherwise while sitting in the court
of appeals.

[Amended in 1920, 1976 and 1978. The first
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1917 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1919 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1920
General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1917, p. 491; Statutes of Nevada
1919, p. 485. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1973
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1975 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1976 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1973, p. 1953; Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1981. The third amendment was
proposed and passed by the 1975 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1977
Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1978 General
Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1951; Statutes of Nevada 1977, p. 1690.]—(Proposed
amendment passed by the 2011 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013
Legislature; effective November 25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2014 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3836; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3969.)

Sec. 5. Judicial districts; election and terms of district judges. The
State is hereby divided into nine judicial districts of which the County of
Storey shall constitute the First; The County of Ormsby the Second; the County
of Lyon the Third; The County of Washoe the Fourth; The Counties of Nye and
Churchill the Fifth; The County of Humboldt the Sixth; The County of Lander the
Seventh; The County of Douglas the Eighth; and the County of Esmeralda the
Ninth. The County of Roop shall be attached to the County of Washoe for
judicial purposes until otherwise provided by law. The Legislature may,
however, provide by law for an alteration in the boundaries or divisions of the
districts herein prescribed, and also for increasing or diminishing the number
of the judicial districts and judges therein. But no such change shall take
effect, except in case of a vacancy, or the expiration of the term of an
incumbent of the office. At the first general election under this Constitution
there shall be elected in each of the respective districts (except as in this
Section hereafter otherwise provided) one district judge, who shall hold office
from and including the first Monday of December A.D., eighteen hundred and
sixty four and until the first Monday of January in the year eighteen hundred
and sixty seven. After the said first election, there shall be elected at the
general election which immediately precedes the expiration of the term of his
predecessor, one district judge in each of the respective judicial districts
(except in the First District as in this Section hereinafter provided.) The
district judges shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respective
districts, and shall hold office for the term of 6 years (excepting those
elected at said first election) from and including the first Monday of January,
next succeeding their election and qualification; provided, that the First
Judicial District shall be entitled to, and shall have three district judges,
who shall possess co-extensive and concurrent jurisdiction, and who shall be
elected at the same times, in the same manner, and shall hold office for the
like terms as herein prescribed, in relation to the judges in other judicial
districts, any one of said judges may preside on the empanneling [empaneling]
of grand juries and the presentment and trial on indictments, under such rules
and regulations as may be prescribed by law.

[Amended in 1976. Proposed and passed by the
1973 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1975 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1976 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1973, p. 1955; Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1932.]

Sec. 6. District Courts: Jurisdiction; referees; family court.

1. The District Courts in the several
Judicial Districts of this State have original jurisdiction in all cases
excluded by law from the original jurisdiction of justices’ courts. They also
have final appellate jurisdiction in cases arising in Justices Courts and such
other inferior tribunals as may be established by law. The District Courts and
the Judges thereof have power to issue writs of Mandamus, Prohibition,
Injunction, Quo-Warranto, Certiorari, and all other writs proper and necessary
to the complete exercise of their jurisdiction. The District Courts and the
Judges thereof shall also have power to issue writs of Habeas Corpus on
petition by, or on behalf of any person who is held in actual custody in their
respective districts, or who has suffered a criminal conviction in their
respective districts and has not completed the sentence imposed pursuant to the
judgment of conviction.

2. The legislature may provide by law for:

(a) Referees in district courts.

(b) The establishment of a family court as a
division of any district court and may prescribe its jurisdiction.

[Amended in 1978, 1986, 1990 and 1992. The first
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1975 legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1977 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1978
general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1951; Statutes of Nevada
1977, p. 1690. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1983
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1985 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1986 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1983, p. 2188; Statutes of Nevada 1985, p. 2332.
The third amendment was proposed and passed by the 1987 legislature; agreed to
and passed by the 1989 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at
the 1990 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1987, p. 2444;
Statutes of Nevada 1989, p. 2222.
The fourth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1989 legislature; agreed to
and passed by the 1991 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at
the 1992 general election. See Statutes of Nevada 1989, p. 2269;
Statutes of Nevada 1991, p. 2494.]

Sec. 7. Terms of courts. [Effective through November 24, 2014, and after
that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved
and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.] The
times of holding the Supreme Court and district courts shall be as fixed by
law. The terms of the Supreme Court shall be held at the seat of government
unless the Legislature otherwise provides by law, except that the Supreme Court
may hear oral argument at other places in the State. The terms of the district
courts shall be held at the county seats of their respective counties unless
the Legislature otherwise provides by law.

[Amended twice in 1976 and in 1998. The first
and second amendments were proposed and passed by the 1973 Legislature; agreed
to and passed by the 1975 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people
at the 1976 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1973, pp. 1940 and 1953;
Statutes of Nevada 1975, pp. 1870 and 1981. The first and second amendments
were combined pursuant to Nev. Art. 16, § 1. The third
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1995 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1997 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1998
General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2964;
Statutes of Nevada 1997, p. 3598.]

Sec. 7. Terms
of courts. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of Senate Joint
Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014
General Election.] The times of holding the Supreme Court,
the court of appeals and the district courts must be as fixed by law. The terms
of the Supreme Court must be held at the seat of government unless the
Legislature otherwise provides by law, except that the Supreme Court may hear
oral argument at other places in the State. The terms of the court of appeals
must be held at the place provided by law. The terms of the district courts
must be held at the county seats of their respective counties unless the
Legislature otherwise provides by law.

[Amended twice in 1976 and in 1998. The first
and second amendments were proposed and passed by the 1973 Legislature; agreed
to and passed by the 1975 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people
at the 1976 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1973, pp. 1940 and 1953;
Statutes of Nevada 1975, pp. 1870 and 1981. The first and second amendments
were combined pursuant to Nev. Art. 16, § 1. The third
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1995 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1997 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1998
General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2964;
Statutes of Nevada 1997, p. 3598.]—(Proposed
amendment passed by the 2011 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013
Legislature; effective November 25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2014 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3837; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3969.)

Sec. 8. Number, qualifications, terms of office and jurisdiction of
justices of the peace; appeals; courts of record. [Effective through November
24, 2014, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution
No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General
Election.] The Legislature shall determine the number of
justices of the peace to be elected in each city and township of the State, and
shall fix by law their qualifications, their terms of office and the limits of
their civil and criminal jurisdiction, according to the amount in controversy,
the nature of the case, the penalty provided, or any combination of these.

The provisions of this section affecting the number,
qualifications, terms of office and jurisdiction of justices of the peace
become effective on the first Monday of January, 1979.

The Legislature shall also prescribe by law the manner,
and determine the cases in which appeals may be taken from justices and other
courts. The Supreme Court, the district courts, and such other courts, as the
Legislature shall designate, shall be courts of record.

[Amended in 1978. Proposed and passed by the
1975 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1977 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1978 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1975, p. 1952; Statutes of Nevada 1977, p. 1691.]

Sec. 8. Number,
qualifications, terms of office and jurisdiction of justices of the peace;
appeals; courts of record. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of
Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters
at the 2014 General Election.]

1. The Legislature shall determine the
number of justices of the peace to be elected in each city and township of the
State and shall fix by law their qualifications, their terms of office and the
limits of their civil and criminal jurisdiction, according to the amount in
controversy, the nature of the case, the penalty provided or any combination of
these.

2. The provisions of this section
affecting the number, qualifications, terms of office and jurisdiction of
justices of the peace become effective on the first Monday of January, 1979.

3. The Legislature shall also prescribe by
law the manner, and determine the cases, in which appeals may be taken from
justices and other courts. The Supreme Court, the court of appeals, the district
courts and such other courts as the Legislature designates are courts of
record.

[Amended in 1978. Proposed and passed by the
1975 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1977 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1978 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1975, p. 1952; Statutes of Nevada 1977, p. 1691.]—(Proposed amendment
passed by the 2011 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013 Legislature;
effective November 25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014
General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3837; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3970.)

Sec: 9. Municipal courts. Provision shall be made by
law prescribing the powers[,] duties and responsibilities of any Municipal
Court that may be established in pursuance of Section One, of this Article; and
also fixing by law the jurisdiction of said Court so as not to conflict with
that of the several courts of Record.

Sec: 10. Fees or perquisites of judicial officers. No
Judicial Officer, except Justices of the Peace and City Recorders shall receive
to his own use any fees or perquisites of Office[.]

Sec. 11. Justices and judges ineligible for other offices. [Effective
through November 24, 2014, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate
Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the
2014 General Election.] The justices of the Supreme Court
and the district judges shall be ineligible to any office, other than a
judicial office, during the term for which they shall have been elected or
appointed; and all elections or appointments of any such judges by the people,
Legislature, or otherwise, during said period, to any office other than
judicial, shall be void.

[Amended in 1950. Proposed and passed by the
1947 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1949 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1950 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1947, p. 878; Statutes of Nevada 1949, p. 684.]

Sec. 11. Justices
and judges ineligible for other offices. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the
provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified
by the voters at the 2014 General Election.] The justices
of the Supreme Court, the judges of the court of appeals and the district
judges are ineligible to any office, other than a judicial office, during the
term for which they have been elected or appointed. All elections or
appointments of any such judges by the people, Legislature or otherwise during
said period to any office other than judicial are void.

[Amended in 1950. Proposed and passed by the
1947 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1949 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1950 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1947, p. 878; Statutes of Nevada 1949, p. 684.]—(Proposed amendment
passed by the 2011 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013 Legislature;
effective November 25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014
General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3837; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3970.)

Sec: 12. Judge not to charge jury respecting matters of fact; statement
of testimony and declaration of law. Judges shall not
charge juries in respect to matters of fact, but may state the testimony and
declare the law.

Sec: 13. Style of process. The style of all process
shall be “The State of Nevada” and all prosecutions shall be conducted in the
name and by the authority of the same.

Sec: 14. One form of civil action. There shall be but
one form of civil action, and law and equity may be administered in the same
action.

Sec: 15. Compensation of justices and judges. [Effective through November
24, 2014, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution
No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.] The
justices of the Supreme Court and district judges shall each receive for their
services a compensation to be fixed by law and paid in the manner provided by
law, which shall not be increased or diminished during the term for which they
shall have been elected, unless a vacancy occurs, in which case the successor
of the former incumbent shall receive only such salary as may be provided by
law at the time of his election or appointment; and provision shall be made by
law for setting apart from each year’s revenue a sufficient amount of money, to
pay such compensation.

[Amended in 1968. Proposed and passed by the
1965 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1967 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1968 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1965, p. 1487; Statutes of Nevada 1967, p. 1787.]

Sec. 15. Compensation
of justices and judges. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of
Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters
at the 2014 General Election.] The justices of the Supreme
Court, the judges of the court of appeals and the district judges are each
entitled to receive for their services a compensation to be fixed by law and
paid in the manner provided by law, which must not be increased or diminished
during the term for which they have been elected, unless a vacancy occurs, in
which case the successor of the former incumbent is entitled to receive only
such salary as may be provided by law at the time of his election or appointment.
A provision must be made by law for setting apart from each year’s revenue a
sufficient amount of money to pay such compensation.

[Amended in 1968. Proposed and passed by the
1965 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1967 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1968 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1965, p. 1487; Statutes of Nevada 1967, p. 1787.]—(Proposed amendment
passed by the 2011 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013 Legislature;
effective November 25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014
General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3838; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3970.)

Sec: 16. Special fee in civil action for compensation of judges. The
Legislature at its first Session, and from time to time thereafter shall
provide by law, that upon the institution of each civil action, and other
proceedings, and also upon the perfecting of an appeal in any civil action or
proceeding, in the several Courts of Record in this State, a special Court fee,
or tax shall be advanced to the Clerks of said Courts, respectively by the
party or parties bringing such action or proceeding, or taking such appeal and
the money so paid in shall be accounted for by such Clerks, and applied towards
the payment of the compensation of the Judges of said Courts, as shall be
directed by law.

Sec: 17. Absence of judicial officer from state; vacation of office. The
Legislature shall have no power to grant leave of absence to a Judicial Officer,
and any such Officer who shall absent himself from the State for more than
Ninety consecutive days, shall be deemed to have vacated his Office[.]

Sec: 18. Territorial judicial officers not superseded until election and
qualification of successors. No Judicial Officer shall be
superceeded [superseded] nor shall the Organization of the several Courts of
the Territory of Nevada be changed until the election and qualification of the
several Officers provided for in this article[.]

Sec. 19. Administration of court system by chief justice.

1. The chief justice is the administrative
head of the court system. Subject to such rules as the supreme court may adopt,
the chief justice may:

(a) Apportion the work of the supreme court among
justices.

(b) Assign district judges to assist in other
judicial districts or to specialized functions which may be established by law.

(c) Recall to active service any retired justice
or judge of the court system who consents to such recall and who has not been
removed or retired for cause or defeated for retention in office, and may
assign him to appropriate temporary duty within the court system.

2. In the absence or temporary disability
of the chief justice, the associate justice senior in commission shall act as
chief justice.

3. This section becomes effective July 1,
1977.

[Added in 1976. Proposed and passed by the 1973
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1975 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1976 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1973, p. 1960; Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1934.]

Sec. 20. Filling of vacancies occurring before expiration of term of
office in Supreme Court or among district judges; Commission on Judicial
Selection. [Effective through November 24, 2014, and after that date unless the
provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified
by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

1. When a vacancy occurs before the
expiration of any term of office in the Supreme Court or among the district
judges, the Governor shall appoint a justice or judge from among three nominees
selected for such individual vacancy by the Commission on Judicial Selection.

2. The term of office of any justice or
judge so appointed expires on the first Monday of January following the next
general election.

3. Each nomination for the Supreme Court
shall be made by the permanent Commission, composed of:

(a) The Chief Justice or an associate justice
designated by him;

(b) Three members of the State Bar of Nevada, a
public corporation created by statute, appointed by its Board of Governors; and

(c) Three persons, not members of the legal
profession, appointed by the Governor.

4. Each nomination for the district court
shall be made by a temporary commission composed of:

(a) The permanent Commission;

(b) A member of the State Bar of Nevada resident
in the judicial district in which the vacancy occurs, appointed by the Board of
Governors of the State Bar of Nevada; and

(c) A resident of such judicial district, not a
member of the legal profession, appointed by the Governor.

5. If at any time the State Bar of Nevada
ceases to exist as a public corporation or ceases to include all attorneys
admitted to practice before the courts of this State, the Legislature shall
provide by law, or if it fails to do so the Court shall provide by rule, for
the appointment of attorneys at law to the positions designated in this Section
to be occupied by members of the State Bar of Nevada.

6. The term of office of each appointive
member of the permanent Commission, except the first members, is 4 years. Each
appointing authority shall appoint one of the members first appointed for a
term of 2 years. If a vacancy occurs, the appointing authority shall fill the
vacancy for the unexpired term. The additional members of a temporary
commission shall be appointed when a vacancy occurs, and their terms shall
expire when the nominations for such vacancy have been transmitted to the
Governor.

7. An appointing authority shall not
appoint to the permanent Commission more than:

(a) One resident of any county.

(b) Two members of the same political party.

No member of the permanent Commission may be a member of a
Commission on Judicial Discipline.

8. After the expiration of 30 days from
the date on which the Commission on Judicial Selection has delivered to him its
list of nominees for any vacancy, if the Governor has not made the appointment
required by this Section, he shall make no other appointment to any public
office until he has appointed a justice or judge from the list submitted.

If a commission on judicial selection is established by
another section of this Constitution to nominate persons to fill vacancies on
the Supreme Court, such commission shall serve as the permanent Commission
established by subsection 3 of this Section.

[Added in 1976. Proposed and passed by the 1973
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1975 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1976 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1973, p. 1954; Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1872.]

Sec. 20. Filling
of vacancies occurring before expiration of term of office in Supreme Court or
court of appeals or among district judges; Commission on Judicial Selection.
[Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No.
14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General
Election.]

1. When a vacancy occurs before the
expiration of any term of office in the Supreme Court or the court of appeals
or among the district judges, the Governor shall appoint a justice or judge
from among three nominees selected for such individual vacancy by the
Commission on Judicial Selection.

2. The term of office of any justice or
judge so appointed expires on the first Monday of January following the next
general election.

3. Each nomination for the Supreme Court
or the court of appeals must be made by the permanent Commission, composed of:

(a) The Chief Justice or an associate justice
designated by him;

(b) Three members of the State Bar of Nevada, a
public corporation created by statute, appointed by its Board of Governors; and

(c) Three persons, not members of the legal
profession, appointed by the Governor.

4. Each nomination for the district court
must be made by a temporary commission composed of:

(a) The permanent Commission;

(b) A member of the State Bar of Nevada resident
in the judicial district in which the vacancy occurs, appointed by the Board of
Governors of the State Bar of Nevada; and

(c) A resident of such judicial district, not a
member of the legal profession, appointed by the Governor.

5. If at any time the State Bar of Nevada
ceases to exist as a public corporation or ceases to include all attorneys
admitted to practice before the courts of this State, the Legislature shall
provide by law, or if it fails to do so the Supreme Court shall provide by
rule, for the appointment of attorneys at law to the positions designated in
this Section to be occupied by members of the State Bar of Nevada.

6. The term of office of each appointive
member of the permanent Commission, except the first members, is 4 years. Each
appointing authority shall appoint one of the members first appointed for a
term of 2 years. If a vacancy occurs, the appointing authority shall fill the
vacancy for the unexpired term. The additional members of a temporary
commission must be appointed when a vacancy occurs, and their terms expire when
the nominations for such vacancy have been transmitted to the Governor.

7. An appointing authority shall not
appoint to the permanent Commission more than:

(a) One resident of any county.

(b) Two members of the same political party.

No member of the permanent Commission may be a member of the
Commission on Judicial Discipline.

8. After the expiration of 30 days from
the date on which the Commission on Judicial Selection has delivered to him its
list of nominees for any vacancy, if the Governor has not made the appointment
required by this Section, he shall make no other appointment to any public
office until he has appointed a justice or judge from the list submitted.

[Added in 1976. Proposed and passed by the 1973
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1975 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1976 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1973, p. 1954; Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1872.]—(Proposed amendment passed by
the 2011 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013 Legislature; effective
November 25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General
Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3838; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3970.)

Sec. 21. Commission on Judicial Discipline; Code of Judicial Conduct.
[Effective through November 24, 2014, and after that date unless the provisions
of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2014 General Election.]

1. A justice of the Supreme Court, a
district judge, a justice of the peace or a municipal judge may, in addition to
the provision of Article 7 for impeachment, be censured, retired, removed or
otherwise disciplined by the Commission on Judicial Discipline. Pursuant to
rules governing appeals adopted by the Supreme Court, a justice or judge may
appeal from the action of the Commission to the Supreme Court, which may
reverse such action or take any alternative action provided in this subsection.

2. The Commission is composed of:

(a) Two justices or judges appointed by the
Supreme Court;

(b) Two members of the State Bar of Nevada, a
public corporation created by statute, appointed by its Board of Governors; and

(c) Three persons, not members of the legal
profession, appointed by the Governor.

The Commission shall elect a Chairman from among its three
lay members.

3. If at any time the State Bar of Nevada
ceases to exist as a public corporation or ceases to include all attorneys
admitted to practice before the courts of this State, the Legislature shall
provide by law, or if it fails to do so the Court shall provide by rule, for
the appointment of attorneys at law to the positions designated in this Section
to be occupied by members of the State Bar of Nevada.

4. The term of office of each appointive
member of the Commission, except the first members, is 4 years. Each appointing
authority shall appoint one of the members first appointed for a term of 2
years. If a vacancy occurs, the appointing authority shall fill the vacancy for
the unexpired term. An appointing authority shall not appoint more than one
resident of any county. The Governor shall not appoint more than two members of
the same political party. No member may be a member of a commission on judicial
selection.

5. The Legislature shall establish:

(a) In addition to censure, retirement and
removal, the other forms of disciplinary action that the Commission may impose;

(b) The grounds for censure and other
disciplinary action that the Commission may impose, including, but not limited
to, violations of the provisions of the Code of Judicial Conduct;

(c) The standards for the investigation of
matters relating to the fitness of a justice or judge; and

(d) The confidentiality or nonconfidentiality, as
appropriate, of proceedings before the Commission, except that, in any event, a
decision to censure, retire or remove a justice or judge must be made public.

6. The Supreme Court shall adopt a Code of
Judicial Conduct.

7. The Commission shall adopt rules of
procedure for the conduct of its hearings and any other procedural rules it
deems necessary to carry out its duties.

8. No justice or judge may by virtue of
this Section be:

(a) Removed except for willful misconduct,
willful or persistent failure to perform the duties of his office or habitual
intemperance; or

(b) Retired except for advanced age which
interferes with the proper performance of his judicial duties, or for mental or
physical disability which prevents the proper performance of his judicial
duties and which is likely to be permanent in nature.

9. Any matter relating to the fitness of a
justice or judge may be brought to the attention of the Commission by any
person or on the motion of the Commission. The Commission shall, after
preliminary investigation, dismiss the matter or order a hearing to be held
before it. If a hearing is ordered, a statement of the matter shall be served
upon the justice or judge against whom the proceeding is brought. The
Commission in its discretion may suspend a justice or judge from the exercise
of his office pending the determination of the proceedings before the
Commission. Any justice or judge whose removal is sought is liable to
indictment and punishment according to law. A justice or judge retired for
disability in accordance with this Section is entitled thereafter to receive
such compensation as the Legislature may provide.

10. If a proceeding is brought against a
justice of the Supreme Court, no justice of the Supreme Court may sit on the
Commission for that proceeding. If a proceeding is brought against a district
judge, no district judge from the same judicial district may sit on the
Commission for that proceeding. If a proceeding is brought against a justice of
the peace, no justice of the peace from the same township may sit on the
Commission for that proceeding. If a proceeding is brought against a municipal
judge, no municipal judge from the same city may sit on the Commission for that
proceeding. If an appeal is taken from an action of the Commission to the Supreme
Court, any justice who sat on the Commission for that proceeding is
disqualified from participating in the consideration or decision of the appeal.
When any member of the Commission is disqualified by this subsection, the
Supreme Court shall appoint a substitute from among the eligible judges.

11. The Commission may:

(a) Designate for each hearing an attorney or
attorneys at law to act as counsel to conduct the proceeding;

(b) Summon witnesses to appear and testify under
oath and compel the production of books, papers, documents and records;

(c) Grant immunity from prosecution or punishment
when the Commission deems it necessary and proper in order to compel the giving
of testimony under oath and the production of books, papers, documents and
records; and

(d) Exercise such further powers as the
Legislature may from time to time confer upon it.

[Added in 1976 and amended in 1994 and 1998. The
addition was proposed and passed by the 1973 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1975 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1976
General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1973, p. 1956; Statutes of Nevada
1975, p. 1932. The first amendment was proposed and passed by the 1991
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1993 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1994 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1991, p. 2590;
Statutes of Nevada 1993, p. 2969.
The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1995 Legislature; agreed to
and passed by the 1997 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at
the 1998 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 3020;
Statutes of Nevada 1997, p. 3596.]

Sec. 21. Commission
on Judicial Discipline; Code of Judicial Conduct. [Effective November 25, 2014,
if the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and
ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

1. A justice of the Supreme Court, a judge
of the court of appeals, a district judge, a justice of the peace or a
municipal judge may, in addition to the provision of Article 7 for impeachment,
be censured, retired, removed or otherwise disciplined by the Commission on
Judicial Discipline. Pursuant to rules governing appeals adopted by the Supreme
Court, a justice or judge may appeal from the action of the Commission to the
Supreme Court, which may reverse such action or take any alternative action
provided in this subsection.

2. The Commission is composed of:

(a) Two justices or judges appointed by the
Supreme Court;

(b) Two members of the State Bar of Nevada, a
public corporation created by statute, appointed by its Board of Governors; and

(c) Three persons, not members of the legal
profession, appointed by the Governor.

The Commission shall elect a Chairman from among its three
lay members.

3. If at any time the State Bar of Nevada
ceases to exist as a public corporation or ceases to include all attorneys
admitted to practice before the courts of this State, the Legislature shall
provide by law, or if it fails to do so the Supreme Court shall provide by
rule, for the appointment of attorneys at law to the positions designated in
this Section to be occupied by members of the State Bar of Nevada.

4. The term of office of each appointive
member of the Commission, except the first members, is 4 years. Each appointing
authority shall appoint one of the members first appointed for a term of 2
years. If a vacancy occurs, the appointing authority shall fill the vacancy for
the unexpired term. An appointing authority shall not appoint more than one
resident of any county. The Governor shall not appoint more than two members of
the same political party. No member may be a member of a commission on judicial
selection.

5. The Legislature shall establish:

(a) In addition to censure, retirement and
removal, the other forms of disciplinary action that the Commission may impose;

(b) The grounds for censure and other
disciplinary action that the Commission may impose, including, but not limited
to, violations of the provisions of the Code of Judicial Conduct;

(c) The standards for the investigation of
matters relating to the fitness of a justice or judge; and

(d) The confidentiality or nonconfidentiality, as
appropriate, of proceedings before the Commission, except that, in any event, a
decision to censure, retire or remove a justice or judge must be made public.

6. The Supreme Court shall adopt a Code of
Judicial Conduct.

7. The Commission shall adopt rules of
procedure for the conduct of its hearings and any other procedural rules it
deems necessary to carry out its duties.

8. No justice or judge may by virtue of
this Section be:

(a) Removed except for willful misconduct,
willful or persistent failure to perform the duties of his office or habitual
intemperance; or

(b) Retired except for advanced age which
interferes with the proper performance of his judicial duties, or for mental or
physical disability which prevents the proper performance of his judicial
duties and which is likely to be permanent in nature.

9. Any matter relating to the fitness of a
justice or judge may be brought to the attention of the Commission by any
person or on the motion of the Commission. The Commission shall, after
preliminary investigation, dismiss the matter or order a hearing to be held
before it. If a hearing is ordered, a statement of the matter must be served
upon the justice or judge against whom the proceeding is brought. The
Commission in its discretion may suspend a justice or judge from the exercise
of his office pending the determination of the proceedings before the
Commission. Any justice or judge whose removal is sought is liable to
indictment and punishment according to law. A justice or judge retired for
disability in accordance with this Section is entitled thereafter to receive
such compensation as the Legislature may provide.

10. If a proceeding is brought against a
justice of the Supreme Court, no justice of the Supreme Court may sit on the
Commission for that proceeding. If a proceeding is brought against a judge of
the court of appeals, no judge of the court of appeals may sit on the
Commission for that proceeding. If a proceeding is brought against a district
judge, no district judge from the same judicial district may sit on the
Commission for that proceeding. If a proceeding is brought against a justice of
the peace, no justice of the peace from the same township may sit on the
Commission for that proceeding. If a proceeding is brought against a municipal
judge, no municipal judge from the same city may sit on the Commission for that
proceeding. If an appeal is taken from an action of the Commission to the
Supreme Court, any justice who sat on the Commission for that proceeding is
disqualified from participating in the consideration or decision of the appeal.
When any member of the Commission is disqualified by this subsection, the
Supreme Court shall appoint a substitute from among the eligible judges.

11. The Commission may:

(a) Designate for each hearing an attorney or
attorneys at law to act as counsel to conduct the proceeding;

(b) Summon witnesses to appear and testify under
oath and compel the production of books, papers, documents and records;

(c) Grant immunity from prosecution or punishment
when the Commission deems it necessary and proper in order to compel the giving
of testimony under oath and the production of books, papers, documents and
records; and

(d) Exercise such further powers as the
Legislature may from time to time confer upon it.

[Added in 1976 and amended in 1994 and 1998. The
addition was proposed and passed by the 1973 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1975 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1976
General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1973, p. 1956; Statutes of Nevada
1975, p. 1932. The first amendment was proposed and passed by the 1991
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1993 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1994 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1991, p. 2590;
Statutes of Nevada 1993, p. 2969.
The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1995 Legislature; agreed to
and passed by the 1997 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at
the 1998 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 3020;
Statutes of Nevada 1997, p. 3596.]—(Proposed
amendment passed by the 2011 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013
Legislature; effective November 25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2014 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3839; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3971.)

3. Removal of
Supreme Court Justice or district judge. [Effective through November 24, 2014,
and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14
(2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

3. Removal of
justices of Supreme Court, judges of court of appeals and judges of district
courts. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of Senate Joint
Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014
General Election.]

Section. 1. Impeachment: Trial; conviction. The Assembly
shall have the sole power of impeaching. The concurrence of a majority of all
the members elected, shall be necessary to an impeachment. All impeachments
shall be tried by the Senate, and when sitting for that purpose, the Senators
shall be upon Oath or Affirmation, to do justice according to Law and Evidence.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme court, shall preside over the Senate while
sitting to try the Governor or Lieutenant Governor upon impeachment. No person
shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the Senators
elected.

Sec: 2. Officers subject to impeachment. The
Governor and other state and judicial officers, except justices of the peace
shall be liable to impeachment for misdemeanor or malfeasance in office; but
judgment in such case shall not extend further than removal from office and
disqualification to hold any office of honor, profit, or trust under this
State. The party whether convicted or acquitted, shall, nevertheless, be liable
to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law.

Sec: 3. Removal of Supreme Court Justice or district judge. [Effective
through November 24, 2014, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate
Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the
2014 General Election.] For any reasonable cause to be
entered on the journals of each House, which may, or may not be sufficient
grounds for impeachment, the Chief Justice and associate justices of the
Supreme Court and judges of the district courts shall be removed from office on
the vote of two thirds of the members elected to each branch of the
Legislature, and the justice or judge complained of, shall be served with a
copy of the complaint against him, and shall have an opportunity of being heard
in person or by counsel in his defense, provided, that no member of either
branch of the Legislature shall be eligible to fill the vacancy occasioned by
such removal.

Sec. 3. Removal
of justices of Supreme Court, judges of court of appeals and judges of district
courts. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of Senate Joint
Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014
General Election.] For any reasonable cause to be entered
on the journals of each House, which may or may not be sufficient grounds for
impeachment, the justices of the Supreme Court, the judges of the court of
appeals and the judges of the district courts must be removed from office on
the vote of two thirds of the members elected to each branch of the
Legislature. The justice or judge complained of must be served with a copy of
the complaint against him, and have an opportunity of being heard in person or
by counsel in his defense. No member of either branch of the Legislature is
eligible to fill the vacancy occasioned by such removal.

(Proposed amendment passed by the 2011
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013 Legislature; effective November
25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.
See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3841; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3973.)

Sec: 4. Removal of other civil officers. Provision
shall be made by law for the removal from Office of any Civil Officer other
than those in this Article previously specified, for Malfeasance, or
Nonfeasance in the Performance of his duties.

ARTICLE. 8. - Municipal and Other
Corporations.

Sec.1. Corporations formed under general laws;
municipal corporations formed under special acts.

10. Loans of
public money to or ownership of stock in certain corporations by county or
municipal corporation prohibited.

Section. 1. Corporations formed under general laws; municipal corporations
formed under special acts. The Legislature shall pass no
Special Act in any manner relating to corporate powers except for Municipal
purposes; but corporations may be formed under general laws; and all such laws
may from time to time, be altered or repealed.

Sec: 2. Corporate property subject to taxation; exemptions. All
real property, and possessory rights to the same, as well as personal property
in this State, belonging to corporations now existing or hereafter created
shall be subject to taxation, the same as property of individuals; Provided,
that the property of corporations formed for Municipal, Charitable, Religious,
or Educational purposes may be exempted by law.

Sec: 3. Individual liability of corporators. Dues
from corporations shall be secured by such means as may be prescribed by law;
Provided, that corporators in corporations formed under the laws of this State
shall not be individually liable for the debts or liabilities of such
corporation.

Sec: 4. Regulation of corporations incorporated under territorial law. Corporations
created by or under the laws of the Territory of Nevada shall be subject to the
provisions of such laws until the Legislature shall pass laws regulating the
same, in pursuance of the provisions of this Constitution[.]

Sec: 5. Corporations may sue and be sued. Corporations
may sue and be sued in all courts, in like manner as individuals.

Sec. 6. Circulation of certain bank notes or paper as money prohibited. No
bank notes or paper of any kind shall ever be permitted to circulate as money
in this State, except the Federal currency, and the notes of banks authorized
under the laws of Congress.

Sec: 7. Eminent domain by corporations. No right of
way shall be appropriated to the use of any corporation until full compensation
be first made or secured therefor.

Section 8. Municipal corporations formed under general laws. The
legislature shall provide for the organization of cities and towns by general
laws and shall restrict their power of taxation, assessment, borrowing money,
contracting debts and loaning their credit, except for procuring supplies of
water; provided, however, that the legislature may, by general laws, in
the manner and to the extent therein provided, permit and authorize the
electors of any city or town to frame, adopt and amend a charter for its own
government, or to amend any existing charter of such city or town.

[Amended in 1924. Proposed and passed by the
1921 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1923 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1924 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1921, p. 420; Statutes of Nevada 1923, p. 403.]

Sec: 9. Gifts or loans of public money to certain corporations prohibited. The
State shall not donate or loan money, or its credit, subscribe to or be,
interested in the Stock of any company, association, or corporation, except
corporations formed for educational or charitable purposes.

Sec: 10. Loans of public money to or ownership of stock in certain
corporations by county or municipal corporation prohibited. No
county, city, town, or other municipal corporation shall become a stockholder
in any joint stock company, corporation or association whatever, or loan its credit
in aid of any such company, corporation or association, except, rail-road
corporations[,] companies or associations.

5. Proceeds
from fees for licensing and registration of motor vehicles and excise taxes on
fuel reserved for construction, maintenance and repair of public highways;
exception.

Section. 1. Fiscal year. The fiscal year shall commence
on the first day of July of each year.

[Amended in 1930. Proposed and passed by the
1927 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1929 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1930 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1927, p. 346; Statutes of Nevada 1929, p. 429.]

1. The legislature shall provide by law
for an annual tax sufficient to defray the estimated expenses of the state for
each fiscal year; and whenever the expenses of any year exceed the income, the
legislature shall provide for levying a tax sufficient, with other sources of
income, to pay the deficiency, as well as the estimated expenses of such
ensuing year or two years.

2. Any money paid for the purpose of providing
compensation for industrial accidents and occupational diseases, and for
administrative expenses incidental thereto, and for the purpose of funding and
administering a public employees’ retirement system, must be segregated in
proper accounts in the state treasury, and such money must never be used for
any other purposes, and they are hereby declared to be trust funds for the uses
and purposes herein specified.

3. Any money paid for the purpose of
funding and administering a public employees’ retirement system must not be
loaned to the state or invested to purchase any obligations of the state.

4. The public employees’ retirement system
must be governed by a public employees’ retirement board. The board shall
employ an executive officer who serves at the pleasure of the board. In
addition to any other employees authorized by the board, the board shall employ
an independent actuary. The board shall adopt actuarial assumptions based upon
the recommendations made by the independent actuary it employs.

[Amended in 1956, 1974 and 1996. The first
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1953 legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1955 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1956
general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1953, p. 729; Statutes of Nevada
1955, p. 927. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1971
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1973 legislature; and approved and ratified
by the people at the 1974 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1971, p.
2267; Statutes of Nevada 1973, p. 1948. The third amendment was proposed and
passed by the 1993 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1995 legislature;
and approved and ratified by the people at the 1996 general election. See:
Statutes of Nevada 1993, p. 3064;
Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2899.]

Sec. 3. State indebtedness: Limitations and exceptions. The
State may contract public debts; but such debts shall never, in the aggregate,
exclusive of interest, exceed the sum of two per cent of the assessed valuation
of the State, as shown by the reports of the county assessors to the State
Controller, except for the purpose of defraying extraordinary expenses, as
hereinafter mentioned. Every such debt shall be authorized by law for some
purpose or purposes, to be distinctly specified therein; and every such law
shall provide for levying an annual tax sufficient to pay the interest
semiannually, and the principal within twenty years from the passage of such
law, and shall specially appropriate the proceeds of said taxes to the payment
of said principal and interest; and such appropriation shall not be repealed
nor the taxes postponed or diminished until the principal and interest of said
debts shall have been wholly paid. Every contract of indebtedness entered into
or assumed by or on behalf of the State, when all its debts and liabilities
amount to said sum before mentioned, shall be void and of no effect, except in
cases of money borrowed to repel invasion, suppress insurrection, defend the
State in time of war, or, if hostilities be threatened, provide for the public
defense.

The State, notwithstanding the foregoing limitations,
may, pursuant to authority of the Legislature, make and enter into any and all
contracts necessary, expedient or advisable for the protection and preservation
of any of its property or natural resources, or for the purposes of obtaining
the benefits thereof, however arising and whether arising by or through any
undertaking or project of the United States or by or through any treaty or
compact between the states, or otherwise. The Legislature may from time to time
make such appropriations as may be necessary to carry out the obligations of
the State under such contracts, and shall levy such tax as may be necessary to
pay the same or carry them into effect.

[Amended in 1916, 1934 and 1989. The first
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1913 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1915 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1916
General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 1913, p. 585; Statutes of Nevada 1915,
p. 516. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1931 Legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1933 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1934 General Election. See Journal of the Senate, 35th Session,
p. 167 and Journal of the Assembly, 35th Session, p. 319; Statutes of Nevada
1933, p. 357. The third amendment was proposed and passed by the 1987
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1989 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at a special election held on May 2, 1989. See Statutes
of Nevada 1987,
p. 2422; Statutes of Nevada 1989, p. 2230.]

Sec: 4. Assumption of debts of county, city or corporation by state. The
State shall never assume the debts of any county, town, city or other
corporation whatever, unless such debts have been created to repel invasion[,]
suppress insurrection or to provide for the public defense.

Section 5. Proceeds from fees for licensing and registration of motor
vehicles and excise taxes on fuel reserved for construction, maintenance and
repair of public highways; exception. The proceeds from the
imposition of any license or registration fee and other charge with respect to
the operation of any motor vehicle upon any public highway in this State and
the proceeds from the imposition of any excise tax on gasoline or other motor
vehicle fuel shall, except costs of administration, be used exclusively for the
construction, maintenance, and repair of the public highways of this State. The
provisions of this section do not apply to the proceeds of any tax imposed upon
motor vehicles by the Legislature in lieu of an ad valorem property tax.

[Added in 1940 and amended in 1962. The addition
was proposed and passed by the 1937 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1939 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1940 General
Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1937, p. 567; Statutes of Nevada 1939, p.
359. The amendment was proposed and passed by the 1960 Legislature; agreed to
and passed by the 1961 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at
the 1962 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1960, p. 509; Statutes of
Nevada 1961, p. 825.]

ARTICLE. 10. - Taxation.

Sec. 1. Uniform and equal rate of assessment and
taxation; valuation of property; exceptions and exemptions; inheritance and
personal income taxes prohibited. [Effective through November 24, 2014, and
after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 15 (2011)
are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

1. Uniform
and equal rate of assessment and taxation; valuation of property; exceptions
and exemptions; inheritance and personal income taxes prohibited. [Effective
November 25, 2014, if the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 15 (2011)
are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

5. Tax on
proceeds of minerals; appropriation to counties; apportionment; assessment and
taxation of mines. [Effective through November 24, 2014, and after that date
unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 15 (2011) are approved and
ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

6. Enactment
of exemption from ad valorem tax on property or excise tax on retail sales.

Section 1. Uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation; valuation of
property; exceptions and exemptions; inheritance and personal income taxes
prohibited. [Effective through November 24, 2014, and after that date unless
the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 15 (2011) are approved and
ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

1. The Legislature shall provide by law
for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, and shall prescribe
such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property,
real, personal and possessory, except mines and mining claims, which shall be
assessed and taxed only as provided in Section 5 of this Article.

2. Shares of stock, bonds, mortgages,
notes, bank deposits, book accounts and credits, and securities and choses in
action of like character are deemed to represent interest in property already
assessed and taxed, either in Nevada or elsewhere, and shall be exempt.

3. The Legislature may constitute
agricultural and open-space real property having a greater value for another
use than that for which it is being used, as a separate class for taxation
purposes and may provide a separate uniform plan for appraisal and valuation of
such property for assessment purposes. If such plan is provided, the
Legislature shall also provide for retroactive assessment for a period of not
less than 7 years when agricultural and open-space real property is converted
to a higher use conforming to the use for which other nearby property is used.

4. Personal property which is moving in
interstate commerce through or over the territory of the State of Nevada, or
which was consigned to a warehouse, public or private, within the State of
Nevada from outside the State of Nevada for storage in transit to a final
destination outside the State of Nevada, whether specified when transportation
begins or afterward, shall be deemed to have acquired no situs in Nevada for
purposes of taxation and shall be exempt from taxation. Such property shall not
be deprived of such exemption because while in the warehouse the property is
assembled, bound, joined, processed, disassembled, divided, cut, broken in
bulk, relabeled or repackaged.

5. The Legislature may exempt motor
vehicles from the provisions of the tax required by this Section, and in lieu
thereof, if such exemption is granted, shall provide for a uniform and equal
rate of assessment and taxation of motor vehicles, which rate shall not exceed
five cents on one dollar of assessed valuation.

6. The Legislature shall provide by law
for a progressive reduction in the tax upon business inventories by 20 percent
in each year following the adoption of this provision, and after the expiration
of the 4th year such inventories are exempt from taxation. The Legislature may
exempt any other personal property, including livestock.

7. No inheritance tax shall ever be
levied.

8. The Legislature may exempt by law
property used for municipal, educational, literary, scientific or other
charitable purposes, or to encourage the conservation of energy or the
substitution of other sources for fossil sources of energy.

9. No income tax shall be levied upon the
wages or personal income of natural persons. Notwithstanding the foregoing
provision, and except as otherwise provided in subsection 1 of this Section,
taxes may be levied upon the income or revenue of any business in whatever form
it may be conducted for profit in the State.

10. The Legislature may provide by law for
an abatement of the tax upon or an exemption of part of the assessed value of a
single-family residence occupied by the owner to the extent necessary to avoid
severe economic hardship to the owner of the residence.

[Amended in 1902, 1906, 1942, 1960, 1962, 1974,
1978, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1990 and 2002. The first amendment was proposed and
passed by the 1899 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1901 Legislature;
and approved and ratified by the people at the 1902 General Election. See:
Statutes of Nevada 1899, p. 139; Statutes of Nevada 1901, p. 136. The second
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1903 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1905 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1906
General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1903, p. 240; Statutes of Nevada
1905, p. 277. The third amendment was proposed and passed by the 1939
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1941 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1942 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1939, p. 360; Statutes of Nevada 1941, p. 559. The fourth amendment was
proposed and passed by the 1957 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1959
Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1960 General Election.
See: Statutes of Nevada 1957, p. 805; Statutes of Nevada 1959, p. 939. The
fifth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1960 Legislature; agreed to and
passed by the 1961 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the
1962 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1960, p. 509; Statutes of Nevada
1961, p. 825. The sixth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1971
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1973 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1974 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1971, p. 2299; Statutes of Nevada 1973, p. 1938. The seventh amendment was
proposed and passed by the 1975 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1977
Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1978 General Election.
See: Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1925; Statutes of Nevada 1977, p. 1727. The
eighth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1979 Legislature; agreed to and
passed by the 1981 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the
1982 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1979, p. 1983, Statutes of
Nevada 1981, p. 2070. The ninth and tenth amendments were proposed and passed
by the 1983 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1985 Legislature; and
approved and ratified by the people at the 1986 General Election. See: Statutes
of Nevada 1983; pp. 2141 and 2225; Statutes of Nevada 1985, pp. 2331
and 2401.
The amendments were combined pursuant to Nev. Art. 16, § 1.
The eleventh amendment was proposed and passed by the 1987 Legislature; agreed
to and passed by the 1989 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people
at a special election held on May 2, 1989. See: Statutes of Nevada 1987, p. 2442;
Statutes of Nevada 1989, p. 2228.
The twelfth amendment was proposed by initiative petition and approved and
ratified by the people at the General Elections of 1988 and 1990. The
thirteenth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1999 Legislature; agreed to
and passed by the 2001 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at
the 2002 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1999, p. 3968;
Statutes of Nevada 2001, p. 3462.]

Section 1. Uniform
and equal rate of assessment and taxation; valuation of property; exceptions
and exemptions; inheritance and personal income taxes prohibited. [Effective
November 25, 2014, if the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 15 (2011)
are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

1. The Legislature shall provide by law
for a uniform and equal rate of assessment and taxation, and shall prescribe
such regulations as shall secure a just valuation for taxation of all property,
real, personal and possessory.

2. Shares of stock, bonds, mortgages,
notes, bank deposits, book accounts and credits, and securities and choses in
action of like character are deemed to represent interest in property already
assessed and taxed, either in Nevada or elsewhere, and shall be exempt.

3. The Legislature may constitute
agricultural and open-space real property having a greater value for another
use than that for which it is being used, as a separate class for taxation
purposes and may provide a separate uniform plan for appraisal and valuation of
such property for assessment purposes. If such plan is provided, the
Legislature shall also provide for retroactive assessment for a period of not
less than 7 years when agricultural and open-space real property is converted
to a higher use conforming to the use for which other nearby property is used.

4. Personal property which is moving in
interstate commerce through or over the territory of the State of Nevada, or
which was consigned to a warehouse, public or private, within the State of
Nevada from outside the State of Nevada for storage in transit to a final
destination outside the State of Nevada, whether specified when transportation
begins or afterward, shall be deemed to have acquired no situs in Nevada for
purposes of taxation and shall be exempt from taxation. Such property shall not
be deprived of such exemption because while in the warehouse the property is
assembled, bound, joined, processed, disassembled, divided, cut, broken in
bulk, relabeled or repackaged.

5. The Legislature may exempt motor
vehicles from the provisions of the tax required by this Section, and in lieu
thereof, if such exemption is granted, shall provide for a uniform and equal
rate of assessment and taxation of motor vehicles, which rate shall not exceed
five cents on one dollar of assessed valuation.

6. The Legislature shall provide by law
for a progressive reduction in the tax upon business inventories by 20 percent
in each year following the adoption of this provision, and after the expiration
of the 4th year such inventories are exempt from taxation. The Legislature may
exempt any other personal property, including livestock.

7. No inheritance tax shall ever be
levied.

8. The Legislature may exempt by law
property used for municipal, educational, literary, scientific or other
charitable purposes, or to encourage the conservation of energy or the
substitution of other sources for fossil sources of energy.

9. No income tax shall be levied upon the
wages or personal income of natural persons. Notwithstanding the foregoing
provision, and except as otherwise provided in subsection 1 of this Section,
taxes may be levied upon the income or revenue of any business in whatever form
it may be conducted for profit in the State.

10. The Legislature may provide by law for
an abatement of the tax upon or an exemption of part of the assessed value of a
single-family residence occupied by the owner to the extent necessary to avoid
severe economic hardship to the owner of the residence.

[Amended in 1902, 1906, 1942, 1960, 1962, 1974,
1978, 1982, 1986, 1989, 1990 and 2002. The first amendment was proposed and
passed by the 1899 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1901 Legislature;
and approved and ratified by the people at the 1902 General Election. See:
Statutes of Nevada 1899, p. 139; Statutes of Nevada 1901, p. 136. The second
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1903 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1905 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1906
General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1903, p. 240; Statutes of Nevada
1905, p. 277. The third amendment was proposed and passed by the 1939
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1941 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1942 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1939, p. 360; Statutes of Nevada 1941, p. 559. The fourth amendment was
proposed and passed by the 1957 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1959
Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1960 General Election.
See: Statutes of Nevada 1957, p. 805; Statutes of Nevada 1959, p. 939. The
fifth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1960 Legislature; agreed to and
passed by the 1961 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the
1962 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1960, p. 509; Statutes of Nevada
1961, p. 825. The sixth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1971
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1973 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1974 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1971, p. 2299; Statutes of Nevada 1973, p. 1938. The seventh amendment was
proposed and passed by the 1975 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1977
Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1978 General Election.
See: Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1925; Statutes of Nevada 1977, p. 1727. The
eighth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1979 Legislature; agreed to and
passed by the 1981 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the
1982 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1979, p. 1983, Statutes of
Nevada 1981, p. 2070. The ninth and tenth amendments were proposed and passed
by the 1983 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1985 Legislature; and
approved and ratified by the people at the 1986 General Election. See: Statutes
of Nevada 1983; pp. 2141 and 2225; Statutes of Nevada 1985, pp. 2331
and 2401.
The amendments were combined pursuant to Nev. Art. 16, § 1.
The eleventh amendment was proposed and passed by the 1987 Legislature; agreed
to and passed by the 1989 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people
at a special election held on May 2, 1989. See: Statutes of Nevada 1987, p. 2442;
Statutes of Nevada 1989, p. 2228.
The twelfth amendment was proposed by initiative petition and approved and
ratified by the people at the General Elections of 1988 and 1990. The
thirteenth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1999 Legislature; agreed to
and passed by the 2001 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at
the 2002 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1999, p. 3968;
Statutes of Nevada 2001, p. 3462.]—(Proposed
amendment passed by the 2011 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013
Legislature; effective November 25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2014 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3871; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3958.)

Sec. 2. Total tax levy for public purposes limited. The
total tax levy for all public purposes including levies for bonds, within the
state, or any subdivision thereof, shall not exceed five cents on one dollar of
assessed valuation.

[Added in 1936. Proposed and passed by the 1933
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1935 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1936 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1933, p. 369; Statutes of Nevada 1935, p. 428.]

Sec. [3]. Household goods and furniture of single household exempt from
taxation. All household goods and furniture used by a
single household and owned by a member of that household are exempt from
taxation.

[Added in 1982. Proposed by initiative petition
and approved by the people at the 1980 and 1982 general elections.]

1. The exemption of food for human
consumption from any tax upon the sale, storage, use or consumption of tangible
personal property; and

2. These commodities to be excluded from
any such exemption:

(a) Prepared food intended for immediate
consumption.

(b) Alcoholic beverages.

[Added in 1984. Proposed and passed by the 1981
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1983 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1984 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1981, p. 2093; Statutes of Nevada 1983, p. 2113.]

Sec. 4. Taxation of estates taxed by United States; limitations. The
legislature may provide by law for the taxation of estates taxed by the United
States, but only to the extent of any credit allowed by federal law for the
payment of the state tax and only for the purpose of education, to be divided
between the common schools and the state university for their support and
maintenance. The combined amount of these federal and state taxes may not
exceed the estate tax which would be imposed by federal law alone. If another
state of the United States imposes and collects death taxes against an estate
which is taxable by the State of Nevada under this section, the amount of
estate tax to be collected by the State of Nevada must be reduced by the amount
of the death taxes collected by the other state. Any lien for the estate tax
attaches no sooner than the time when the tax is due and payable, and no
restriction on possession or use of a decedent's property may be imposed by law
before the time when the tax is due and payable in full under federal law. The
State of Nevada shall:

1. Accept the determination by the United
States of the amount of the taxable estate without further audit.

2. Accept payment of the tax in
installments proportionate to any which may be permitted under federal law.

3. Impose no penalty for such a deferred
payment.

4. Not charge interest on a deferred or
belated payment at any rate higher than may be provided in similar
circumstances by federal law.

[Added in 1986. Proposed and passed by the 1983
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1985 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1986 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1983, p. 2224; Statutes of Nevada 1985, p. 2400.]

Sec. 5. Tax on proceeds of minerals; appropriation to counties;
apportionment; assessment and taxation of mines. [Effective through November
24, 2014, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution
No. 15 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General
Election.]

1. The legislature shall provide by law
for a tax upon the net proceeds of all minerals, including oil, gas and other
hydrocarbons, extracted in this state, at a rate not to exceed 5 percent of the
net proceeds. No other tax may be imposed upon a mineral or its proceeds until
the identity of the proceeds as such is lost.

2. The legislature shall appropriate to
each county that sum which would be produced by levying a tax upon the entire
amount of the net proceeds taxed in each taxing district in the county at the
rate levied in that district upon the assessed valuation of real property. The
total amount so appropriated to each county must be apportioned among the
respective governmental units and districts within it, including the county
itself and the school district, in the same proportion as they share in the
total taxes collected on property according to value.

3. Each patented mine or mining claim must
be assessed and taxed as other real property is assessed and taxed, except that
no value may be attributed to any mineral known or believed to underlie it, and
no value may be attributed to the surface of a mine or claim if one hundred
dollars’ worth of labor has been actually performed on the mine or claim during
the year preceding the assessment.

[Added in 1989. Proposed and passed by the 1987
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1989 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at a special election held on May 2, 1989. See: Statutes
of Nevada 1987,
p. 2443; Statutes of Nevada 1989, p. 2229.]—(Proposed
repeal passed by the 2011 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013
Legislature; effective November 25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2014 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3872; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3959.)

1. The Legislature shall not enact an
exemption from any ad valorem tax on property or excise tax on the sale,
storage, use or consumption of tangible personal property sold at retail unless
the Legislature finds that the exemption:

(a) Will achieve a bona fide social or economic
purpose and the benefits of the exemption are expected to exceed any adverse
effect of the exemption on the provision of services to the public by the State
or a local government that would otherwise receive revenue from the tax from
which the exemption would be granted; and

(b) Will not impair adversely the ability of the
State or a local government to pay, when due, all interest and principal on any
outstanding bonds or any other obligations for which revenue from the tax from
which the exemption would be granted was pledged.

2. In enacting an exemption from any ad
valorem tax on property or excise tax on the sale, storage, use or consumption
of tangible personal property sold at retail, the Legislature shall:

(a) Ensure that the requirements for claiming the
exemption are as similar as practicable for similar classes of taxpayers; and

(b) Provide a specific date on which the
exemption will cease to be effective.

[Added in 2008. Proposed and passed by the 2005
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2007 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 2008 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 2005, p. 3048;
Statutes of Nevada 2007, p. 3585.]

ARTICLE. 11. - Education.

Sec. 1. Legislature
to encourage education; appointment, term and duties of superintendent of
public instruction.

5. Establishment
of normal schools and grades of schools; oath of teachers and professors.

6. Support of
university and common schools by direct legislative appropriation; priority of
appropriations. [Effective through November 21, 2016, and after that date
unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and
passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the
2016 General Election.]

6. Support of
university and common schools by direct legislative appropriation; priority of
appropriations. [Effective November 22, 2016, if the provisions of Senate Joint
Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and
approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

Section 1. Legislature to encourage education; appointment, term and duties
of superintendent of public instruction. The legislature
shall encourage by all suitable means the promotion of intellectual, literary,
scientific, mining, mechanical, agricultural, and moral improvements, and also
provide for a superintendent of public instruction and by law prescribe the
manner of appointment, term of office and the duties thereof.

[Amended in 1956. Proposed and passed by the
1953 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1955 legislature; approved and
ratified by the people at the 1956 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1953, p. 716; Statutes of Nevada 1955, p. 926.]

Section 2. Uniform system of common schools. The
legislature shall provide for a uniform system of common schools, by which a
school shall be established and maintained in each school district at least six
months in every year, and any school district which shall allow instruction of
a sectarian character therein may be deprived of its proportion of the interest
of the public school fund during such neglect or infraction, and the
legislature may pass such laws as will tend to secure a general attendance of
the children in each school district upon said public schools.

[Amended in 1938. Proposed and passed by the
1935 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1937 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1938 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1935, p. 440; Statutes of Nevada 1937, p. 550.]

Sec. 3. Pledge of certain property and money, escheated estates and
fines collected under penal laws for educational purposes; apportionment and
use of interest. All lands granted by Congress to this
state for educational purposes, all estates that escheat to the state, all
property given or bequeathed to the state for educational purposes, and the
proceeds derived from these sources, together with that percentage of the
proceeds from the sale of federal lands which has been granted by Congress to
this state without restriction or for educational purposes and all fines
collected under the penal laws of the state are hereby pledged for educational
purposes and the money therefrom must not be transferred to other funds for
other uses. The interest only earned on the money derived from these sources
must be apportioned by the legislature among the several counties for
educational purposes, and, if necessary, a portion of that interest may be
appropriated for the support of the state university, but any of that interest
which is unexpended at the end of any year must be added to the principal sum
pledged for educational purposes.

[Amended in 1886, 1889, 1912, 1916, 1980, and
1988. The first amendment was approved and ratified by the people at the 1886
general election, but no entry of the proposed amendment had been made upon the
journal of either house of the legislature, and such omission was fatal to the
adoption of the amendment. See: State ex rel. Stevenson v. Tufly, 19 Nev. 391
(1887). The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1885 legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1887 legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at a special election held February 11, 1889. See: Statutes of Nevada
1885, p. 160; Statutes of Nevada 1887, p. 168. The third amendment was proposed
and passed by the 1909 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1911
legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1912 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1909, p. 340; Statutes of Nevada 1911, p.
453. The fourth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1913 legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1915 legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1916 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1913, p. 591;
Statutes of Nevada 1915, p. 513. The fifth amendment was proposed and passed by
the 1977 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1979 legislature; and
approved and ratified by the people at the 1980 general election. See: Statutes
of Nevada 1977, p. 1716; Statutes of Nevada 1979, p. 1953. The sixth amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1985 legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1987 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1988 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1985, p. 2361;
Statutes of Nevada 1987, p. 2355.]

Sec: 4. Establishment of state university; control by board of regents. The
Legislature shall provide for the establishment of a State University which
shall embrace departments for Agriculture, Mechanic Arts, and Mining to be
controlled by a Board of Regents whose duties shall be prescribed by Law.

Sec: 5. Establishment of normal schools and grades of schools; oath of
teachers and professors. The Legislature shall have power
to establis [establish] Normal schools, and such different grades of schools,
from the primary department to the University, as in their discretion they may
deem necessary, and all Professors in said University, or Teachers in said
Schools of whatever grade, shall be required to take and subscribe to the oath
as prescribed in Article Fifteenth of this Constitution. No Professor or
Teacher who fails to comply with the provisions of any law framed in accordance
with the provisions of this Section, shall be entitled to receive any portion
of the public monies set apart for school purposes.

Section 6. Support of university and common schools by direct legislative
appropriation; priority of appropriations. [Effective through November 21,
2016, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No.
8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved and
ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

1. In addition to other means provided for
the support and maintenance of said university and common schools, the
legislature shall provide for their support and maintenance by direct
legislative appropriation from the general fund, upon the presentation of
budgets in the manner required by law.

2. During a regular session of the
Legislature, before any other appropriation is enacted to fund a portion of the
state budget for the next ensuing biennium, the Legislature shall enact one or
more appropriations to provide the money the Legislature deems to be
sufficient, when combined with the local money reasonably available for this
purpose, to fund the operation of the public schools in the State for
kindergarten through grade 12 for the next ensuing biennium for the population
reasonably estimated for that biennium.

3. During a special session of the
Legislature that is held between the end of a regular session in which the
Legislature has not enacted the appropriation or appropriations required by
subsection 2 to fund education for the next ensuing biennium and the first day
of that next ensuing biennium, before any other appropriation is enacted other
than appropriations required to pay the cost of that special session, the
Legislature shall enact one or more appropriations to provide the money the
Legislature deems to be sufficient, when combined with the local money
reasonably available for this purpose, to fund the operation of the public
schools in the State for kindergarten through grade 12 for the next ensuing
biennium for the population reasonably estimated for that biennium.

4. During a special session of the
Legislature that is held in a biennium for which the Legislature has not
enacted the appropriation or appropriations required by subsection 2 to fund
education for the biennium in which the special session is being held, before
any other appropriation is enacted other than appropriations required to pay
the cost of that special session, the Legislature shall enact one or more
appropriations to provide the money the Legislature deems to be sufficient, when
combined with the local money reasonably available for this purpose, to fund
the operation of the public schools in the State for kindergarten through grade
12 for the population reasonably estimated for the biennium in which the
special session is held.

5. Any appropriation of money enacted in
violation of subsection 2, 3 or 4 is void.

6. As used in this section, “biennium”
means a period of two fiscal years beginning on July 1 of an odd-numbered year
and ending on June 30 of the next ensuing odd-numbered year.

[Amended in 1889, 1938, 1954 and 2006. The first
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1885 legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1887 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at a special
election held February 11, 1889. See: Statutes of Nevada 1885, p. 161; Statutes
of Nevada 1887, p. 169. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the
1935 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1937 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1938 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1935, p. 440; Statutes of Nevada 1937, p. 550. The third amendment was
proposed and passed by the 1951 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1953
legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1954 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1951, p. 591; Statutes of Nevada 1953, p.
716. The fourth amendment was proposed by initiative petition and approved and
ratified by the people at the 2004 and 2006 General Elections.]

Sec. 6. Support
of university and common schools by direct legislative appropriation; priority
of appropriations. [Effective November 22, 2016, if the provisions of Senate
Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature
and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

1. In addition to other means provided for
the support and maintenance of said university and common schools, the
legislature shall provide for their support and maintenance by direct legislative
appropriation from the general fund, upon the presentation of budgets in the
manner required by law.

2. During a regular session of the
Legislature in any odd-numbered year, before any other appropriation is enacted
to fund a portion of the state budget for the next ensuing biennium, the
Legislature shall enact one or more appropriations to provide the money the
Legislature deems to be sufficient, when combined with the local money
reasonably available for this purpose, to fund the operation of the public
schools in the State for kindergarten through grade 12 for the next ensuing
biennium for the population reasonably estimated for that biennium.

3. During a special session of the
Legislature that is held between the end of a regular session in an
odd-numbered year in which the Legislature has not enacted the appropriation or
appropriations required by subsection 2 to fund education for the next ensuing
biennium and the first day of that next ensuing biennium, before any other
appropriation is enacted other than appropriations required to pay the cost of
that special session, the Legislature shall enact one or more appropriations to
provide the money the Legislature deems to be sufficient, when combined with
the local money reasonably available for this purpose, to fund the operation of
the public schools in the State for kindergarten through grade 12 for the next
ensuing biennium for the population reasonably estimated for that biennium.

4. During a special session of the
Legislature that is held in a biennium for which the Legislature has not
enacted the appropriation or appropriations required by subsection 2 to fund
education for the biennium in which the special session is being held, before
any other appropriation is enacted other than appropriations required to pay
the cost of that special session, the Legislature shall enact one or more
appropriations to provide the money the Legislature deems to be sufficient,
when combined with the local money reasonably available for this purpose, to
fund the operation of the public schools in the State for kindergarten through
grade 12 for the population reasonably estimated for the biennium in which the special
session is held.

5. Any appropriation of money enacted in
violation of subsection 2, 3 or 4 is void.

6. As used in this section, “biennium”
means a period of two fiscal years beginning on July 1 of an odd-numbered year
and ending on June 30 of the next ensuing odd-numbered year.

[Amended in 1889, 1938, 1954 and 2006. The first
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1885 legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1887 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at a special
election held February 11, 1889. See: Statutes of Nevada 1885, p. 161; Statutes
of Nevada 1887, p. 169. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the
1935 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1937 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1938 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1935, p. 440; Statutes of Nevada 1937, p. 550. The third amendment was
proposed and passed by the 1951 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1953
legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1954 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1951, p. 591; Statutes of Nevada 1953, p.
716. The fourth amendment was proposed by initiative petition and approved and
ratified by the people at the 2004 and 2006 General Elections.]—(Proposed
amendment passed by the 2013 Legislature; effective November 22, 2016, if
agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2016 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3981.)

Sec: 7. Board of Regents: Election and duties. The
Governor, Secretary of State, and Superintendent of Public Instruction, shall
for the first four years and until their successors are elected and qualified
constitute a Board of Regents to control and manage the affairs of the
University and the funds of the same under such regulations as may be provided
by law. But the Legislature shall at its regular session next preceding the
expiration of the term of office of said Board of Regents provide for the election
of a new Board of Regents and define their duties.

Sec: 8. Immediate organization and maintenance of state university. The
Board of Regents shall, from the interest accruing from the first funds which
come under their control, immediately organize and maintain the said Mining
department in such manner as to make it most effective and useful, Provided,
that all the proceeds of the public lands donated by Act of Congress approved
July second AD. Eighteen hundred and sixty Two, for a college for the benefit
of Agriculture[,] the Mechanics Arts, and including Military tactics shall be
invested by the said Board of Regents in a separate fund to be appropriated
exclusively for the benefit of the first named departments to the University as
set forth in Section Four above; And the Legislature shall provide that if through
neglect or any other contingency, any portion of the fund so set apart, shall
be lost or misappropriated, the State of Nevada shall replace said amount so
lost or misappropriated in said fund so that the principal of said fund shall
remain forever undiminished[.]

Sec: 9. Sectarian instruction prohibited in common schools and
university. No sectarian instruction shall be imparted or
tolerated in any school or University that may be established under this
Constitution.

Section Ten. No public money to be used for sectarian purposes. No
public funds of any kind or character whatever, State, County or Municipal,
shall be used for sectarian purpose.

[Added in 1880. Proposed and passed by the 1877
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1879 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1880 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1877, p. 221; Statutes of Nevada 1879, p. 149.]

Section. 1. Legislature to provide for militia. The
Legislature shall provide by law for organizing and disciplining the Militia of
this State, for the effectual encouragement of Volunteer Corps and the safe
keeping of the public Arms.

Sec: 2. Power of governor to call out militia. The
Governor shall have power to call out the Militia to execute the laws of the
State or to suppress insurrection or repel invasion.

ARTICLE. 13. - Public Institutions.

Sec.1. Institutions for insane, blind, deaf and dumb
to be fostered and supported by state.

Section. 1. Institutions for insane, blind, deaf and dumb to be fostered and
supported by state. Institutions for the benefit of the
Insane, Blind and Deaf and Dumb, and such other benevolent institutions as the
public good may require, shall be fostered and supported by the State, subject
to such regulations as may be prescribed by law.

Sec: 2. State prison: Establishment and maintenance; juvenile offenders. A
State Prison shall be established and maintained in such manner as may be
prescribed by law, and provision may be made by law for the establishment and
maintainance [maintenance] of a House of Refuge for Juvenile Offenders.

Sec: 3. County public welfare. [Repealed in 1937.]

[Sec. 3 of the original constitution was
repealed by vote of the people at a special election held March 17, 1937. See
Statutes of Nevada 1935, p. 439; Statutes of Nevada 1937, pp. 19, 50. The
original section read: “The respective counties of the State shall provide as
may be prescribed by law, for those inhabitants who, by reason of age and
infirmity or misfortunes, may have claim upon the sympathy and aid of
Society.”]

ARTICLE. 14. - Boundary.

Section. 1. Boundary of the State of Nevada. The
boundary of the State of Nevada is as follows:

Commencing at a point formed by the intersection of the
forty-third degree of longitude West from Washington with the forty-second
degree of North latitude; thence due East along the forty-second degree of
North latitude to its intersection with the thirty-seventh degree of longitude
West from Washington; thence South on the thirty-seventh degree of longitude
West from Washington to its intersection with the middle line of the Colorado
River of the West; thence down the middle line of the Colorado River of the
West to its intersection with the Eastern boundary of the State of California;
thence in a North Westerly direction along the Eastern boundary line of the
State of California to the forty-third degree of Longitude West from
Washington; Thence North along the forty-third degree of West Longitude, and
the Eastern boundary line of the State of California to the place of beginning.
All territory lying West of and adjoining the boundary line herein prescribed,
which the State of California may relinquish to the Territory or State of
Nevada, shall thereupon be embraced within and constitute a part of this State.

[Amended in 1982. Proposed and passed by the
1979 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1981 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1982 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1979, p. 1978; Statutes of Nevada 1981, p. 2140.]

8. Publication
of general statutes and decisions of Supreme Court; effective date of decisions
of Supreme Court. [Effective through November 24, 2014, and after that date
unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and
ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.]

8. Publication
of general statutes; publication and effective date of decisions of Supreme
Court and court of appeals. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of
Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters
at the 2014 General Election.]

9. Increase
or decrease of compensation of officers whose compensation fixed by
constitution.

Section. 1. Carson City seat of government. The seat of
Government shall be at Carson City, but no appropriation for the erection or
purchase of Capitol buildings shall be made during the next three Years[.]

Section 2. Oath of office. Members of the legislature,
and all officers, executive, judicial and ministerial, shall, before they enter
upon the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe to the
following oath:

I, ................, do solemly [solemnly] swear (or
affirm) that I will support, protect and defend the constitution and government
of the United States, and the constitution and government of the State of
Nevada, against all enemies, whether domestic or foreign, and that I will bear
true faith, allegiance and loyalty to the same, any ordinance, resolution or
law of any state notwithstanding, and that I will well and faithfully perform
all the duties of the office of ................, on which I am about to enter;
(if an oath) so help me God; (if an affirmation) under the pains and penalties
of perjury.

[Amended in 1914. Proposed and passed by the
1911 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1913 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1914 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1911, p. 458; Journal of the Assembly, 26th Session, p. 20 and Journal
of the Senate, 26th Session, p. 37.]

Sec. 3. Eligibility for public office.

1. No person shall be eligible to any
office who is not a qualified elector under this Constitution.

2. No person may be elected to any state
office or local governing body who has served in that office, or at the
expiration of his current term if he is so serving will have served, 12 years
or more, unless the permissible number of terms or duration of service is
otherwise specified in this Constitution.

[Amended in 1889, 1912, 1978 and 1996. The first
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1887 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1889 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at a Special
Election held February 11, 1889. See: Statutes of Nevada 1887, p. 162; Statutes
of Nevada 1889, p. 151. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the
1909 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1911 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1912 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1909, p. 349; Statutes of Nevada 1911, p. 454. The third amendment was
proposed and passed by the 1975 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1977
Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1978 General Election.
See: Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1902; Statutes of Nevada 1977, p. 1687. The
fourth amendment was proposed by initiative petition and approved and ratified
by the people at the 1994 and 1996 General Elections.]

Sec: 5. Time of general election. The general
election shall be held on the Tuesday next after the first Monday of November.

Sec: 6. Number of members of legislature limited. The
aggregate number of members of both branches of the Legislature shall never
exceed Seventy five.

Sec: 7. County offices at county seats. All county
Officers shall hold their Offices at the County seat of their respective
Counties.

Sec: 8. Publication of general statutes and decisions of Supreme Court;
effective date of decisions of Supreme Court. [Effective through November 24,
2014, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No.
14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General
Election.] The Legislature shall provide for the speedy
publication of all statute laws of a general nature, and such decisions of the
Supreme Court, as it may deem expedient; and all laws and judicial decisions
shall be free for publication by any person; provided, that no judgment
of the Supreme Court shall take effect and be operative until the opinion of
the court in such case shall be filed with the clerk of said court.

Sec. 8. Publication
of general statutes; publication and effective date of decisions of Supreme
Court and court of appeals. [Effective November 25, 2014, if the provisions of
Senate Joint Resolution No. 14 (2011) are approved and ratified by the voters
at the 2014 General Election.] The Legislature shall
provide for the speedy publication of all statute laws of a general nature and
such decisions of the Supreme Court and the court of appeals as it may deem
expedient. All laws and judicial decisions must be free for publication by any
person. No judgment of the Supreme Court or the court of appeals shall take
effect and be operative until the opinion of the court in such case is filed
with the clerk of said court.

(Proposed amendment passed by the 2011
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013 Legislature; effective November
25, 2014, if approved and ratified by the voters at the 2014 General Election.
See Statutes of Nevada 2011, p.
3841; Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3974.)

Sec: 9. Increase or decrease of compensation of officers whose
compensation fixed by constitution. The Legislature may, at
any time, provide by law for increasing or diminishing the salaries or
compensation of any of the Officers, whose salaries or compensation is fixed in
this Constitution; Provided, no such change of Salary or compensation shall
apply to any Officer during the term for which he may have been elected.

Sec: 10. Election or appointment of officers. All
officers whose election or appointment is not otherwise provided for, shall be
chosen or appointed as may be prescribed by law.

Sec. 11. Term of office when not fixed by Constitution; limitation;
municipal officers and employees. The tenure of any office
not herein provided for may be declared by law, or, when not so declared, such
office shall be held during the pleasure of the authority making the
appointment, but the Legislature shall not create any office the tenure of
which shall be longer than four (4) years, except as herein otherwise provided
in this Constitution. In the case of any officer or employee of any
municipality governed under a legally adopted charter, the provisions of such
charter with reference to the tenure of office or the dismissal from office of
any such officer or employee shall control.

[Amended in 1946. Proposed and passed by the
1943 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1945 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1946 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1943, p. 325; Statutes of Nevada 1945, p. 505.]

Sec: 12. Certain state officers to keep offices at Carson City. The
Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State Controller, and Clerk of
the Supreme Court, shall keep their respective offices at the seat of
Government.

Sec: 13. Census by legislature and Congress: Basis of representation in
houses of legislature. The enumeration of the inhabitants
of this State shall be taken under the direction of the Legislature if deemed
necessary in AD Eighteen hundred and Sixty five, AD Eighteen hundred and Sixty
seven, AD Eighteen hundred and Seventy five, and every ten years thereafter;
and these enumerations, together with the census that may be taken under the
direction of the Congress of the United States in A.D. Eighteen hundred and
Seventy, and every subsequent ten years shall serve as the basis of
representation in both houses of the Legislature.

Sec: 14. Election by plurality. A plurality of votes
given at an election by the people, shall constitute a choice, where not
otherwise provided by this Constitution[.]

Sec. 15. Merit system governing employment in executive branch of state
government. The legislature shall provide by law for a
state merit system governing the employment of employees in the executive
branch of state government.

[Added in 1970. Proposed and passed by the 1967
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1969 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1970 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1967, p. 1829; Statutes of Nevada 1969, p. 1720.]

Sec. 16. Payment of minimum compensation to employees.

A. Each employer shall pay a wage to each
employee of not less than the hourly rates set forth in this section. The rate
shall be five dollars and fifteen cents ($5.15) per hour worked, if the
employer provides health benefits as described herein, or six dollars and
fifteen cents ($6.15) per hour if the employer does not provide such benefits.
Offering health benefits within the meaning of this section shall consist of
making health insurance available to the employee for the employee and the
employee’s dependents at a total cost to the employee for premiums of not more
than 10 percent of the employee’s gross taxable income from the employer. These
rates of wages shall be adjusted by the amount of increases in the federal
minimum wage over $5.15 per hour, or, if greater, by the cumulative increase in
the cost of living. The cost of living increase shall be measured by the
percentage increase as of December 31 in any year over the level as of December
31, 2004 of the Consumer Price Index (All Urban Consumers, U.S. City Average)
as published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor or the
successor index or federal agency. No CPI adjustment for any one-year period
may be greater than 3%. The Governor or the State agency designated by the
Governor shall publish a bulletin by April 1 of each year announcing the
adjusted rates, which shall take effect the following July 1. Such bulletin
will be made available to all employers and to any other person who has filed
with the Governor or the designated agency a request to receive such notice but
lack of notice shall not excuse noncompliance with this section. An employer
shall provide written notification of the rate adjustments to each of its employees
and make the necessary payroll adjustments by July 1 following the publication
of the bulletin. Tips or gratuities received by employees shall not be credited
as being any part of or offset against the wage rates required by this section.

B. The provisions of this section may not
be waived by agreement between an individual employee and an employer. All of
the provisions of this section, or any part hereof, may be waived in a bona
fide collective bargaining agreement, but only if the waiver is explicitly set
forth in such agreement in clear and unambiguous terms. Unilateral
implementation of terms and conditions of employment by either party to a
collective bargaining relationship shall not constitute, or be permitted, as a
waiver of all or any part of the provisions of this section. An employer shall
not discharge, reduce the compensation of or otherwise discriminate against any
employee for using any civil remedies to enforce this section or otherwise
asserting his or her rights under this section. An employee claiming violation
of this section may bring an action against his or her employer in the courts
of this State to enforce the provisions of this section and shall be entitled
to all remedies available under the law or in equity appropriate to remedy any
violation of this section, including but not limited to back pay, damages,
reinstatement or injunctive relief. An employee who prevails in any action to
enforce this section shall be awarded his or her reasonable attorney’s fees and
costs.

C. As used in this section, “employee”
means any person who is employed by an employer as defined herein but does not
include an employee who is under eighteen (18) years of age, employed by a
nonprofit organization for after school or summer employment or as a trainee
for a period not longer than ninety (90) days. “Employer” means any individual,
proprietorship, partnership, joint venture, corporation, limited liability
company, trust, association, or other entity that may employ individuals or
enter into contracts of employment.

D. If any provision of this section is
declared illegal, invalid or inoperative, in whole or in part, by the final
decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, the remaining provisions and
all portions not declared illegal, invalid or inoperative shall remain in full
force or effect, and no such determination shall invalidate the remaining
sections or portions of the sections of this section.

[Added in 2006. Proposed by initiative petition
and approved and ratified by the people at the 2004 and 2006 General
Elections.]

1. Any amendment or amendments to this
Constitution may be proposed in the Senate or Assembly; and if the same shall
be agreed to by a Majority of all the members elected to each of the two
houses, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be entered on their
respective journals, with the Yeas and Nays taken thereon, and referred to the
Legislature then next to be chosen, and shall be published for three months
next preceding the time of making such choice. And if in the Legislature next
chosen as aforesaid, such proposed amendment or amendments shall be agreed to
by a majority of all the members elected to each house, then it shall be the
duty of the Legislature to submit such proposed amendment or amendments to the
people, in such manner and at such time as the Legislature shall prescribe; and
if the people shall approve and ratify such amendment or amendments by a
majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the Legislature
voting thereon, such amendment or amendments shall, unless precluded by
subsection 2 or section 2 of article 19 of this constitution, become a part of
the Constitution.

2. If, two or more amendments which affect
the same section of the constitution are ratified by the people pursuant to
this section at the same election:

(a) If all can be given effect without
contradiction in substance, each shall become a part of the constitution.

(b) If one or more contradict in substance the
other or others, that amendment which received the largest favorable vote, and
any other ratified amendment or amendments compatible with it, shall become a
part of the constitution.

3. If, after the proposal of an amendment,
another amendment is ratified pursuant to this section which affects the same
section of the constitution but is compatible with the proposed amendment, the
next legislature if it agrees to the proposed amendment shall submit such
proposal to the people as a further amendment to the amended section. If, after
the proposal of an amendment, another amendment is ratified pursuant to this
section which contradicts in substance the proposed amendment, such proposed
amendment shall not be submitted to the people.

[Amended in 1972 and 1998. The first amendment
was proposed and passed by the 1969 legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1971 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1972 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1969, p. 1728; Statutes of Nevada 1971, p.
2265. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1995 legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1997 legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1998 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2949;
Statutes of Nevada 1997, p. 3592.
A previous amendment to this section was approved and ratified by the people at
the 1886 general election, but no entry of the proposed amendment had been made
upon the journal of either house of the legislature, and such omission was
fatal to the adoption of the amendment. See: State ex rel. Stevenson v. Tufly,
19 Nev. 391 (1887).]

Sec: 2. Convention for revision of constitution: Procedure. If
at any time the Legislature by a vote of two thirds of the Members elected to
each house, shall determine that it is necessary to cause a revision of this
entire Constitution they shall recommend to the electors at the next election
for Members of the Legislature, to vote for or against a convention, and if it
shall appear that a majority of the electors voting at such election, shall
have voted in favor of calling a Convention, the Legislature shall, at its next
session provide by law for calling a Convention to be holden within six months
after the passage of such law, and such Convention shall consist of a number of
Members not less than that of both branches of the Legislature. In determining
what is a majority of the electors voting at such election, reference shall be
had to the highest number of votes cast at such election for the candidates for
any office or on any question.

[An amendment to this section was approved and
ratified by the people at the 1886 general election, but no entry of the
proposed amendment had been made upon the journal of either house of the
legislature, and such omission was fatal to the adoption of the amendment. See:
State ex rel. Stevenson v. Tufly, 19 Nev. 391 (1887).]

11. Terms of
members of Assembly elected at first general election or in 1865.

12. Commencement
date of first three legislative sessions; regular sessions of legislature to be
held biennially. [Effective through November 21, 2016, and after that date
unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and
passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the
2016 General Election.]

12. Commencement
date of first three legislative sessions; regular sessions of legislature to be
held thereafter. [Effective November 22, 2016, if the provisions of Senate
Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature
and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

13. Continuation
of territorial county and township officers; probate judges.

Section. 1. Saving existing rights and liabilities. That
no inconvenience may arise by reason of a change from a Territorial to a
permanent State Government, it is declared, that all rights, actions,
prosecutions, judgements[,] Claims and Contracts, as well of individuals, as of
bodies corporate, including counties, towns and cities, shall continue as if no
change had taken place; and all process which may issue under the Authority of
the Territory of Nevada, previous to its admission into the Union as one of the
United States, shall be as valid as if issued in the name of the State of
Nevada.

Sec: 2. Territorial laws to remain in force. All
laws of the Territory of Nevada in force at the time of the admission of this
State, not repugnant to this Constitution, shall remain in force until they
expire by their own limitations or be altered or repealed by the Legislature.

Sec: 3. Fines, penalties and forfeitures to inure to state. All
fines, penalties and forfeitures accruing to the Territory of Nevada or to the
people of the United States in the Territory of Nevada, shall inure to the
State of Nevada.

Sec: 4. Existing obligations and pending suits. All
recognizances heretofore taken, or which may be taken before the change from a
Territorial, to a State Government, shall remain valid, and shall pass to, and
may be prosecuted in the name of the State, and all bonds, executed to the
Governor of the Territory or to any other Officer or Court in his or their
official capacity, or to the people of the United States in the Territory of
Nevada, shall pass to the Governor, or other officer or court, and his or their
successors in office for the uses therein respectively expressed, and may be
sued on, and recovery had accordingly; And all property real, personal or
mixed, and all judgements, bonds, specialties, choses in Action, claims and
debts of whatsoever description, and all records, and public Archives of the
Territory of Nevada, shall issue to and vest in the State of Nevada, and may be
sued for and recovered in the same manner and to the same extent by the State
of Nevada, as the same could have been by the Territory of Nevada. All criminal
prosecutions and penal Actions, which may have arisen, or which may arise
before the change from a Territorial to a State Government, and which shall
then be pending, shall be prosecuted to judgement and execution in the name of
the State. All offenses committed against the laws of the Territory of Nevada,
before the change from a Territorial to a State Government, and which shall not
be prosecuted before such change, may be prosecuted in the name and by the Authority
of the State of Nevada, with like effect as though such change had not taken
place; And all penalties incurred, shall remain the same as if this
Constitution had not been adopted; All actions at law, and suits in equity, and
other legal proceedings, which may be pending in any of the Courts of the
Territory of Nevada at the time of the change from a Territorial to a State
Government may be continued and transferred to, and determined by, any court of
the State, which shall have jurisdiction of the subject matter thereof. All
actions at law and suits in Equity, and all other legal proceedings, which may
be pending in any of the Courts of the Territory of Nevada at the time of the
change from a Territorial to a State Government, shall be continued and transferred
to, and may be prosecuted to judgement and execution in any Court of the State
which shall have jurisdiction of the subject matter thereof; And all books,
papers and records, relating to the same shall be transferred in like manner to
such Court.

Sec: 5. Salaries of state officers for first term of office. For
the first term of office succeeding the formation of a State Government, the
Salary of the Governor shall be Four Thousand Dollars per annum; The salary of
the Secretary of State shall be Three Thousand, Six hundred Dollars per annum;
The salary of the State Controller shall be Three Thousand, Six hundred Dollars
per annum; The salary of the State Treasurer shall be Three Thousand Six
hundred Dollars per Annum; The salary of the Surveyor General shall be One
Thousand Dollars per annum; The salary of the Attorney General shall be Two
Thousand Five hundred Dollars per annum; The salary of the Superintendent of
Public Instruction shall be Two Thousand Dollars per annum; The salary of each
judge of the Supreme Court shall be Seven Thousand Dollars per annum; The
salaries of the foregoing officers, shall be paid quarterly, out of the State
Treasury. The pay of State Senators and Members of Assembly shall be Eight
Dollars per day, for each day of actual service, and forty cents per mile for
mileage going to, and returning from, the place of meeting. No officer
mentioned in this Section, shall receive any fee or perquisites, to his own use
for the performance of any duty connected with his office, or for the
performance of any additional duty imposed upon him by law.

Sec: 6. Apportionment of Senators and members of Assembly. Until
otherwise provided by Law the apportionment of Senators and Assemblymen in the
different counties shall be as follows, to Wit: Storey County four Senators and
Twelve Assemblymen, Douglas County One Senator and Two Assemblymen; Esmeralda
County, Two Senators and Four Assemblymen; Humboldt County, Two Senators and
Three Assemblymen; Lander County Two Senators and Four Assemblymen; Lyon
County, One Senator and Three Assemblymen; Lyon and Churchill Counties, One
Senator jointly; Churchill County One Assemblyman; Nye County One Senator and
one Assemblyman; Ormsby County Two Senators and Three Assemblymen; Washoe and
Roop Counties, Two Senators and Three Assemblymen.

Sec: 7. Assumption of territorial debts and liabilities. All
debts and liabilities of the Territory of Nevada, lawfully incurred and which
remain unpaid, at the time of the admission of this State into the Union shall
be assumed by and become the debt of the State of Nevada; Provided that the
assumption of such indebtedness shall not prevent the State from contracting
the additional indebtedness as provided in Section Three of Article Nine of
this Constitution.

Sec: 8. Terms of elected state officers. The term of
State Officers, except Judicial, elected at the first election under this
Constitution shall continue until the Tuesday after the first Monday of January
AD. Eighteen hundred and sixty seven, and until the election and qualification
of their successors.

Sec: 9. Terms of senators. The Senators to be
elected at the first election under this Constitution shall draw lots, so that,
the term of one half of the number as nearly as may be, shall expire on the day
succeeding the general election in A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Six; and the
term of the other half shall expire on the day succeeding the general election
in A.D. Eighteen hundred and sixty eight, Provided, that in drawing lots for
all Senatorial terms, the Senatorial representation shall be allotted, so that
in the Counties having two or more Senators, the terms thereof shall be divided
as nearly as may be between the long and short terms.

Sec: 10. Terms of Senators and members of Assembly after 1866. At
the general election in A.D. Eighteen hundred and Sixty Six; and thereafter,
the term of Senators shall be for Four Years from the day succeeding such
general election, and members of Assembly for Two Years from the day succeeding
such general election, and the terms of Senators shall be allotted by the
Legislature in long and short terms as hereinbefore provided; so that one half
the number as nearly as may be, shall be elected every Two Years.

Sec: 11. Terms of members of Assembly elected at first general election
or in 1865. The term of the members of the Assembly elected
at the first general election under this Constitution shall expire on the day
succeeding the general election in AD. Eighteen hundred and Sixty Five; and the
terms of those elected at the general election in AD. Eighteen hundred and
Sixty Five, shall expire on the day succeeding the general election in A.D.
Eighteen hundred and Sixty six.

Sec. 12. Commencement date of first three legislative sessions; regular
sessions of legislature to be held biennially. [Effective through November 21,
2016, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No.
8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved and
ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.] The
first regular session of the Legislature shall commence on the second Monday of
December A.D. Eighteen hundred and Sixty Four, and the second regular session
of the same shall commence on the first Monday of January A.D. Eighteen hundred
and Sixty Six; and the third regular session of the Legislature shall be the
first of the biennial sessions, and shall commence on the first Monday of
January A.D. Eighteen hundred and Sixty Seven; and the regular sessions of the
Legislature shall be held thereafter biennially.

[See
Art. 4, sec. 2, as amended in 1889. Amended in 1998.
Proposed and passed by the 1995 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1997
legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1998 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2972;
Statutes of Nevada 1997, p. 3726.]

Sec. 12. Commencement
date of first three legislative sessions; regular sessions of legislature to be
held thereafter. [Effective November 22, 2016, if the provisions of Senate
Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature
and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.] The
first regular session of the Legislature shall commence on the second Monday of
December A.D. Eighteen hundred and Sixty Four, and the second regular session
of the same shall commence on the first Monday of January A.D. Eighteen hundred
and Sixty Six; and the third regular session of the Legislature shall be the
first of the biennial sessions, and shall commence on the first Monday of
January A.D. Eighteen hundred and Sixty Seven; and the regular sessions of the
Legislature shall be held thereafter.

[See Art. 4, sec. 2, as
amended in 1889. Amended in 1998. Proposed and passed by the 1995 legislature;
agreed to and passed by the 1997 legislature; and approved and ratified by the
people at the 1998 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2972;
Statutes of Nevada 1997, p. 3726.]—(Proposed
amendment passed by the 2013 Legislature; effective November 22, 2016, if
agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2016 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3982.)

Sec: 13. Continuation of territorial county and township officers;
probate judges. All county officers under the laws of the
Territory of Nevada at the time when the Constitution shall take effect, whose
offices are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Constitution, shall
continue in office until the first Monday of January A.D. Eighteen hundred and
Sixty Seven, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and all
township officers shall continue in office until the expiration of their terms of
office, and until their successors are elected and qualified; Provided, that
the Probate Judges of the several counties respectively, shall continue in
office until the election and qualification of the District Judges of the
several counties or Judicial Districts; And Provided further, that the term of
office of the present county officers of Lander County, shall expire on the
first Monday of January AD Eighteen hundred and Sixty Five, except the Probate
Judge of said County whose term of office shall expire upon the first Monday of
December A.D. Eighteen hundred and Sixty Four, and there shall be an election
for County Officers of Lander County at the general election in November A.D.
Eighteen hundred and Sixty Four, and the officers then elected, shall hold
office from the first Monday of January AD. Eighteen hundred and Sixty five
until the first Monday of January AD. Eighteen hundred and sixty seven, and
until their successors are elected and qualified.

Sec: 14. Duties of certain territorial officers continued. The
Governor, Secretary, Treasurer and Superintendent of Public Instruction of the
Territory of Nevada shall each continue to discharge the duties of their
respective offices after the admission of this State into the Union, and until
the time designated for the qualification of the above named officers to be
elected under the State Government, and the Territorial Auditor shall continue
to discharge the duties of his said office until the time appointed for the
qualification of the State Controller; Provided, that the said officers shall
each receive the salaries, and be subject to the restrictions and conditions
provided in this Constitution; And Provided further, that none of them shall
receive to his own use any fees or perquisites for the performance of any duty
connected with his office.

Sec: 15. Terms of supreme court and district courts. The
terms of the Supreme Court shall, until provision be made by law, be held at
such times as the Judges of the said Court or a majority of them may appoint.
The first terms of the several District Courts (except as hereinafter
mentioned) shall commence on the first Monday of December A.D. Eighteen Hundred
and Sixty Four. The first term of the District Court in the Fifth Judicial
District, shall commence on the first Monday of December A.D. Eighteen Hundred
and Sixty Four in the County of Nye; and shall commence on the first Monday of
January A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Five in the County of Churchill. The
terms of the Fourth Judicial District Court shall until otherwise provided by
law be held at the County Seat of Washoe County, and the first term thereof
commence on the first Monday of December, AD. Eighteen Hundred and Sixty Four.

Sec: 16. Salaries of district judges. The Judges of
the several District Courts of this State shall be paid as hereinbefore
provided Salaries at the following rates per Annum: First Judicial District
(Each Judge) Six Thousand Dollars; Second Judicial District Four Thousand
Dollars; Third Judicial District, Five Thousand Dollars; Fourth Judicial
District Five Thousand Dollars; Fifth Judicial District Thirty Six Hundred
Dollars; Sixth Judicial District Four Thousand Dollars; Seventh Judicial
District Six Thousand Dollars; Eighth Judicial District Thirty Six Hundred Dollars;
Ninth Judicial District Five Thousand Dollars.

Sec: 17. Alteration of salary of district judge authorized. The
salary of any Judge in said Judicial Districts may by law be altered or
changed, subject to the provisions contained in this Constitution.

Sec: 18. Qualification and terms of certain elective state officers. The
Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Secretary of State, State Treasurer, State
Controller, Attorney General, Surveyor General, Clerk of the Supreme Court and
Superintendent of Public Instruction, to be elected at the first election under
this Constitution shall each qualify and enter upon the duties of their
respective offices on the first Monday of December succeeding their election
and shall continue in office until the first Tuesday after the first Monday of
January AD. Eighteen hundred and Sixty Seven, and until the election and
qualification of their successors respectively.

Sec: 19. When justices of supreme court and district judges enter upon
duties. The Judges of the Supreme Court and District Judges
to be elected at the first election under this Constitution shall qualify and
enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the first Monday of
December succeeding their election.

Sec: 20. State officers and district judges to be commissioned by
territorial governor; state controller and treasurer to furnish bonds. All
officers of State, and District Judges first elected under this Constitution
shall be commissioned by the Governor of this Territory, which commission shall
be countersigned by the Secretary of the same, and shall qualify before
entering upon the discharge of their duties, before any officer authorized to administer
oaths under the Laws of this Territory; and also the State Controller and State
Treasurer shall each respectively, before they qualify, and enter upon the
discharge of their duties, execute and deliver to the Secretary of the
Territory of Nevada an Official Bond, made payable to the People of the State
of Nevada in the sum of Thirty Thousand Dollars, to be approved by the Governor
of the Territory of Nevada; and shall also execute and deliver to the Secretary
of State such other or further official Bond or Bonds as may be required by
law.

Sec: 21. Support of county and city officers. Each
County, Town, City, and Incorporated Village shall make provision for the
support of its own officers, subject to such regulations as may be prescribed
by law.

Sec. 22. Vacancies in certain state offices: How filled. In
case the office of any State officer, except a judicial officer, shall become
vacant before the expiration of the regular term for which he was elected, the
vacancy may be filled by appointment by the Governor until it shall be supplied
at the next general election, when it shall be filled by election for the
residue of the unexpired term.

[Amended in 1976. Proposed and passed by the
1973 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1975 legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 1976 general election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 1973, p. 1955; Statutes of Nevada 1975, p. 1873.]

Sec: 23. Civil and criminal cases pending in probate courts transferred
to district courts. All cases both civil and criminal,
which may be pending and undetermined in the Probate Courts of the several
counties at the time when under the provisions of this Constitution, said
Probate Courts are to be abolished, shall be transferred to and determined by
the District Courts of such counties respectively.

Sec: 24. Levy of tax limited for 3 years. For the
first Three Years after the adoption of this Constitution the Legislature shall
not levy a tax for State purposes, exceeding one per cent per annum on the
taxable property in the State, Provided, the Legislature may levy a special tax
not exceeding one fourth of one per cent per annum, which shall be appropriated
to the payment of the indebtedness of the Territory of Nevada, assumed by the
State of Nevada, and for that purpose only, until all of said indebtedness is
paid.

Sec: 25. Roop County attached to Washoe County. The
County of Roop shall be attached to the County of Washoe for Judicial[,]
Legislative, Revenue and County purposes, until otherwise provided by law.

Sec: 26. Constitutional debates and proceedings: Publication; payment of
reporter. At the first regular session of the Legislature
to convene under the requirements of this Constitution, provisions shall be
made by law for paying for the publication of Six Hundred copies of the Debates
and proceedings of this Convention in Book form, to be disposed of as the
Legislature may direct; and the Hon. J Neely Johnson President of this
Convention, shall contract for, and A. J Marsh, official reporter of this
convention under the direction of the President, shall supervise the
publication of such debates and proceedings. Provision shall be made by law, at
such first session of the Legislature for the compensation of the official
reporter of this convention, and he shall be paid in coin or its equivalent. He
shall receive for his services in reporting the debates and proceedings,
Fifteen Dollars per day during the session of the Convention, and Seven and one
half dollars additional for each evening session, and thirty cents per folio of
one hundred words for preparing the same for publication, and for supervising
and indexing such publication the sum of Fifteen Dollars per day during the
time actually engaged in such service.

ARTICLE XVIII - [Right of Suffrage]

Rights of suffrage and
officeholding.[Repealed in 1992.]

[Added in 1880. Art. XVIII was proposed and
passed by the 1877 legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1879 legislature;
and approved and ratified by the people at the 1880 general election. See:
Statutes of Nevada 1877, p. 213; Statutes of Nevada 1879, p. 149. Article XVIII
was repealed by vote of the people at the 1992 general election. See Statutes
of Nevada 1989,
p. 2295; Statutes of Nevada 1991, p. 2498.
The original section read: “The rights of suffrage and officeholding shall not
be withheld from any male citizen of the United States by reason of his color
or previous condition of servitude.”]

ARTICLE 19. - Initiative and
Referendum

Sec.1. Referendum for approval or disapproval of
statute or resolution enacted by legislature.

2. Initiative
petition for enactment or amendment of statute or amendment of Constitution;
concurrent and consecutive amendments. [Effective through November 21, 2016,
and after that date unless the provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 8
(2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved and
ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

2. Initiative
petition for enactment or amendment of statute or amendment of Constitution;
concurrent and consecutive amendments. [Effective November 22, 2016, if the
provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by
the 2015 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016
General Election.]

6. Limitation
on initiative making appropriation or requiring expenditure of money.

Section 1. Referendum for approval or disapproval of statute or resolution
enacted by legislature.

1. A person who intends to circulate a
petition that a statute or resolution or part thereof enacted by the
legislature be submitted to a vote of the people, before circulating the
petition for signatures, shall file a copy thereof with the secretary of state.
He shall file the copy not earlier than August 1 of the year before the year in
which the election will be held.

2. Whenever a number of registered voters
of this state equal to 10 percent or more of the number of voters who voted at
the last preceding general election shall express their wish by filing with the
secretary of state, not less than 120 days before the next general election, a
petition in the form provided for in Section 3 of this Article that any statute
or resolution or any part thereof enacted by the legislature be submitted to a
vote of the people, the officers charged with the duties of announcing and
proclaiming elections and of certifying nominations or questions to be voted
upon shall submit the question of approval or disapproval of such statute or
resolution or any part thereof to a vote of the voters at the next succeeding
election at which such question may be voted upon by the registered voters of
the entire State. The circulation of the petition shall cease on the day the
petition is filed with the secretary of state or such other date as may be
prescribed for the verification of the number of signatures affixed to the
petition, whichever is earliest.

3. If a majority of the voters voting upon
the proposal submitted at such election votes approval of such statute or
resolution or any part thereof, such statute or resolution or any part thereof
shall stand as the law of the state and shall not be amended, annulled,
repealed, set aside, suspended or in any way made inoperative except by the
direct vote of the people. If a majority of such voters votes disapproval of
such statute or resolution or any part thereof, such statute or resolution or
any part thereof shall be void and of no effect.

[Added in 1904, amended in 1962 and 1988. The
addition was proposed and passed by the 1901 Legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1903 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1904
General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 1901, p. 139; Journal of the Senate,
21st Session, p. 88 and Journal of the Assembly, 21st Session, p. 191. The
first amendment was proposed and passed by the 1960 Legislature; agreed to and
passed by the 1961 Legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the
1962 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 1960, p. 512; Statutes of Nevada
1961, p. 813. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1985
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1987 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1988 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 1985, p. 2363;
Statutes of Nevada 1987, p. 2347.]

Sec. 2. Initiative petition for enactment or amendment of statute or
amendment of Constitution; concurrent and consecutive amendments. [Effective
through November 21, 2016, and after that date unless the provisions of Senate
Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature
and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016 General Election.]

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of
Section 1 of Article 4 of this Constitution, but subject to the limitations of
Section 6 of this Article, the people reserve to themselves the power to
propose, by initiative petition, statutes and amendments to statutes and
amendments to this Constitution, and to enact or reject them at the polls.

2. An initiative petition shall be in the
form required by Section 3 of this Article and shall be proposed by a number of
registered voters equal to 10 percent or more of the number of voters who voted
at the last preceding general election in not less than 75 percent of the
counties in the State, but the total number of registered voters signing the
initiative petition shall be equal to 10 percent or more of the voters who
voted in the entire State at the last preceding general election.

3. If the initiative petition proposes a
statute or an amendment to a statute, the person who intends to circulate it
shall file a copy with the Secretary of State before beginning circulation and
not earlier than January 1 of the year preceding the year in which a regular
session of the Legislature is held. After its circulation, it shall be filed
with the Secretary of State not less than 30 days prior to any regular session
of the Legislature. The circulation of the petition shall cease on the day the
petition is filed with the Secretary of State or such other date as may be
prescribed for the verification of the number of signatures affixed to the
petition, whichever is earliest. The Secretary of State shall transmit such
petition to the Legislature as soon as the Legislature convenes and organizes.
The petition shall take precedence over all other measures except appropriation
bills, and the statute or amendment to a statute proposed thereby shall be
enacted or rejected by the Legislature without change or amendment within 40
days. If the proposed statute or amendment to a statute is enacted by the
Legislature and approved by the Governor in the same manner as other statutes
are enacted, such statute or amendment to a statute shall become law, but shall
be subject to referendum petition as provided in Section 1 of this Article. If
the statute or amendment to a statute is rejected by the Legislature, or if no
action is taken thereon within 40 days, the Secretary of State shall submit the
question of approval or disapproval of such statute or amendment to a statute
to a vote of the voters at the next succeeding general election. If a majority
of the voters voting on such question at such election votes approval of such
statute or amendment to a statute, it shall become law and take effect upon
completion of the canvass of votes by the Supreme Court. An initiative measure
so approved by the voters shall not be amended, annulled, repealed, set aside
or suspended by the Legislature within 3 years from the date it takes effect.
If a majority of such voters votes disapproval of such statute or amendment to
a statute, no further action shall be taken on such petition. If the
Legislature rejects such proposed statute or amendment, the Governor may
recommend to the Legislature and the Legislature may propose a different
measure on the same subject, in which event, after such different measure has
been approved by the Governor, the question of approval or disapproval of each
measure shall be submitted by the Secretary of State to a vote of the voters at
the next succeeding general election. If the conflicting provisions submitted
to the voters are both approved by a majority of the voters voting on such
measures, the measure which receives the largest number of affirmative votes
shall thereupon become law. If at the session of the Legislature to which an
initiative petition proposing an amendment to a statute is presented which the
Legislature rejects or upon which it takes no action, the Legislature amends
the statute which the petition proposes to amend in a respect which does not
conflict in substance with the proposed amendment, the Secretary of State in
submitting the statute to the voters for approval or disapproval of the
proposed amendment shall include the amendment made by the Legislature.

4. If the initiative petition proposes an
amendment to the Constitution, the person who intends to circulate it shall
file a copy with the Secretary of State before beginning circulation and not
earlier than September 1 of the year before the year in which the election is
to be held. After its circulation it shall be filed with the Secretary of State
not less than 90 days before any regular general election at which the question
of approval or disapproval of such amendment may be voted upon by the voters of
the entire State. The circulation of the petition shall cease on the day the
petition is filed with the Secretary of State or such other date as may be
prescribed for the verification of the number of signatures affixed to the petition,
whichever is earliest. The Secretary of State shall cause to be published in a
newspaper of general circulation, on three separate occasions, in each county
in the State, together with any explanatory matter which shall be placed upon
the ballot, the entire text of the proposed amendment. If a majority of the
voters voting on such question at such election votes disapproval of such
amendment, no further action shall be taken on the petition. If a majority of
such voters votes approval of such amendment, the Secretary of State shall
publish and resubmit the question of approval or disapproval to a vote of the
voters at the next succeeding general election in the same manner as such
question was originally submitted. If a majority of such voters votes
disapproval of such amendment, no further action shall be taken on such
petition. If a majority of such voters votes approval of such amendment, it
shall, unless precluded by subsection 5 or 6, become a part of this
Constitution upon completion of the canvass of votes by the Supreme Court.

5. If two or more measures which affect
the same section of a statute or of the Constitution are finally approved
pursuant to this Section, or an amendment to the Constitution is finally so
approved and an amendment proposed by the Legislature is ratified which affect
the same section, by the voters at the same election:

(a) If all can be given effect without
contradiction in substance, each shall be given effect.

(b) If one or more contradict in substance the
other or others, the measure which received the largest favorable vote, and any
other approved measure compatible with it, shall be given effect. If the one or
more measures that contradict in substance the other or others receive the same
number of favorable votes, none of the measures that contradict another shall
be given effect.

6. If, at the same election as the first
approval of a constitutional amendment pursuant to this Section, another
amendment is finally approved pursuant to this Section, or an amendment
proposed by the Legislature is ratified, which affects the same section of the
Constitution but is compatible with the amendment given first approval, the
Secretary of State shall publish and resubmit at the next general election the
amendment given first approval as a further amendment to the section as amended
by the amendment given final approval or ratified. If the amendment finally
approved or ratified contradicts in substance the amendment given first
approval, the Secretary of State shall not submit the amendment given first
approval to the voters again.

[Added in 1912, amended in 1958, 1962, twice in
1972 and in 1988 and 1998. The addition was proposed and passed by the 1909
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1911 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1912 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1909, p. 347; Statutes of Nevada 1911, p. 446. The first amendment was proposed
by initiative petition and approved and ratified by the people at the general
election of 1958. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1960
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1961 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1962 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1960, p. 512; Statutes of Nevada 1961, p. 813. The third and fourth amendments
were proposed and passed by the 1969 legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1971 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1972 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1969, pp. 1680, 1719; Statutes of Nevada
1971, pp. 2230, 2260. The fifth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1985
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1987 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1988 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1985, p. 2364;
Statutes of Nevada 1987, p. 2348.
The sixth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1995 legislature; agreed to
and passed by the 1997 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at
the 1998 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2949;
Statutes of Nevada 1997, p. 3593.]

Sec. 2. Initiative
petition for enactment or amendment of statute or amendment of Constitution;
concurrent and consecutive amendments. [Effective November 22, 2016, if the
provisions of Senate Joint Resolution No. 8 (2013) are agreed to and passed by
the 2015 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2016
General Election.]

1. Notwithstanding the provisions of
Section 1 of Article 4 of this Constitution, but subject to the limitations of
Section 6 of this Article, the people reserve to themselves the power to
propose, by initiative petition, statutes and amendments to statutes and
amendments to this Constitution, and to enact or reject them at the polls.

2. An initiative petition shall be in the
form required by Section 3 of this Article and shall be proposed by a number of
registered voters equal to 10 percent or more of the number of voters who voted
at the last preceding general election in not less than 75 percent of the
counties in the State, but the total number of registered voters signing the
initiative petition shall be equal to 10 percent or more of the voters who
voted in the entire State at the last preceding general election.

3. If the initiative petition proposes a
statute or an amendment to a statute, the person who intends to circulate it
shall file a copy with the Secretary of State before beginning circulation and
not earlier than 1 year before the commencement of the regular session of the
Legislature to which the petition will be transmitted. After its circulation,
it shall be filed with the Secretary of State not less than 30 days before the
commencement of the regular session of the Legislature to which the petition will
be transmitted. The circulation of the petition shall cease on the day the
petition is filed with the Secretary of State or such other date as may be
prescribed for the verification of the number of signatures affixed to the
petition, whichever is earliest. The Secretary of State shall transmit such
petition to the Legislature as soon as the Legislature convenes and organizes.
The petition shall take precedence over all other measures except appropriation
bills, and the statute or amendment to a statute proposed thereby shall be
enacted or rejected by the Legislature without change or amendment within 40
days. If the proposed statute or amendment to a statute is enacted by the
Legislature and approved by the Governor in the same manner as other statutes are
enacted, such statute or amendment to a statute shall become law, but shall be
subject to referendum petition as provided in Section 1 of this Article. If the
statute or amendment to a statute is rejected by the Legislature, or if no
action is taken thereon within 40 days, the Secretary of State shall submit the
question of approval or disapproval of such statute or amendment to a statute
to a vote of the voters at the next succeeding general election. If a majority
of the voters voting on such question at such election votes approval of such
statute or amendment to a statute, it shall become law and take effect upon
completion of the canvass of votes by the Supreme Court. An initiative measure
so approved by the voters shall not be amended, annulled, repealed, set aside
or suspended by the Legislature within 3 years from the date it takes effect.
If a majority of such voters votes disapproval of such statute or amendment to
a statute, no further action shall be taken on such petition. If the
Legislature rejects such proposed statute or amendment, the Governor may
recommend to the Legislature and the Legislature may propose a different
measure on the same subject, in which event, after such different measure has
been approved by the Governor, the question of approval or disapproval of each
measure shall be submitted by the Secretary of State to a vote of the voters at
the next succeeding general election. If the conflicting provisions submitted
to the voters are both approved by a majority of the voters voting on such
measures, the measure which receives the largest number of affirmative votes
shall thereupon become law. If at the session of the Legislature to which an
initiative petition proposing an amendment to a statute is presented which the
Legislature rejects or upon which it takes no action, the Legislature amends
the statute which the petition proposes to amend in a respect which does not
conflict in substance with the proposed amendment, the Secretary of State in
submitting the statute to the voters for approval or disapproval of the
proposed amendment shall include the amendment made by the Legislature.

4. If the initiative petition proposes an
amendment to the Constitution, the person who intends to circulate it shall
file a copy with the Secretary of State before beginning circulation and not
earlier than September 1 of the year before the year in which the election is
to be held. After its circulation it shall be filed with the Secretary of State
not less than 90 days before any regular general election at which the question
of approval or disapproval of such amendment may be voted upon by the voters of
the entire State. The circulation of the petition shall cease on the day the
petition is filed with the Secretary of State or such other date as may be
prescribed for the verification of the number of signatures affixed to the
petition, whichever is earliest. The Secretary of State shall cause to be
published in a newspaper of general circulation, on three separate occasions,
in each county in the State, together with any explanatory matter which shall
be placed upon the ballot, the entire text of the proposed amendment. If a
majority of the voters voting on such question at such election votes
disapproval of such amendment, no further action shall be taken on the
petition. If a majority of such voters votes approval of such amendment, the
Secretary of State shall publish and resubmit the question of approval or
disapproval to a vote of the voters at the next succeeding general election in
the same manner as such question was originally submitted. If a majority of
such voters votes disapproval of such amendment, no further action shall be
taken on such petition. If a majority of such voters votes approval of such
amendment, it shall, unless precluded by subsection 5 or 6, become a part of
this Constitution upon completion of the canvass of votes by the Supreme Court.

5. If two or more measures which affect
the same section of a statute or of the Constitution are finally approved
pursuant to this Section, or an amendment to the Constitution is finally so
approved and an amendment proposed by the Legislature is ratified which affect
the same section, by the voters at the same election:

(a) If all can be given effect without
contradiction in substance, each shall be given effect.

(b) If one or more contradict in substance the
other or others, the measure which received the largest favorable vote, and any
other approved measure compatible with it, shall be given effect. If the one or
more measures that contradict in substance the other or others receive the same
number of favorable votes, none of the measures that contradict another shall
be given effect.

6. If, at the same election as the first
approval of a constitutional amendment pursuant to this Section, another
amendment is finally approved pursuant to this Section, or an amendment
proposed by the Legislature is ratified, which affects the same section of the
Constitution but is compatible with the amendment given first approval, the
Secretary of State shall publish and resubmit at the next general election the
amendment given first approval as a further amendment to the section as amended
by the amendment given final approval or ratified. If the amendment finally
approved or ratified contradicts in substance the amendment given first
approval, the Secretary of State shall not submit the amendment given first
approval to the voters again.

[Added in 1912, amended in 1958, 1962, twice in
1972 and in 1988 and 1998. The addition was proposed and passed by the 1909
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1911 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1912 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1909, p. 347; Statutes of Nevada 1911, p. 446. The first amendment was proposed
by initiative petition and approved and ratified by the people at the general
election of 1958. The second amendment was proposed and passed by the 1960
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1961 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1962 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1960, p. 512; Statutes of Nevada 1961, p. 813. The third and fourth amendments
were proposed and passed by the 1969 legislature; agreed to and passed by the
1971 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1972 general
election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1969, pp. 1680, 1719; Statutes of Nevada
1971, pp. 2230, 2260. The fifth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1985
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1987 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1988 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1985, p. 2364;
Statutes of Nevada 1987, p. 2348.
The sixth amendment was proposed and passed by the 1995 legislature; agreed to
and passed by the 1997 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at
the 1998 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1995, p. 2949;
Statutes of Nevada 1997, p. 3593.]—(Proposed
amendment passed by the 2013 Legislature; effective November 22, 2016, if
agreed to and passed by the 2015 Legislature and approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2016 General Election. See Statutes of Nevada 2013, p.
3982.)

1. Each referendum petition and initiative
petition shall include the full text of the measure proposed. Each signer shall
affix thereto his or her signature, residence address and the name of the
county in which he or she is a registered voter. The petition may consist of
more than one document, but each document shall have affixed thereto an
affidavit made by one of the signers of such document to the effect that all of
the signatures are genuine and that each individual who signed such document
was at the time of signing a registered voter in the county of his or her
residence. The affidavit shall be executed before a person authorized by law to
administer oaths in the State of Nevada. The enacting clause of all statutes or
amendments proposed by initiative petition shall be: “The People of the State
of Nevada do enact as follows:”.

2. The Legislature may authorize the
Secretary of State and the other public officers to use generally accepted
statistical procedures in conducting a preliminary verification of the number
of signatures submitted in connection with a referendum petition or an
initiative petition, and for this purpose to require petitions to be filed no
more than 65 days earlier than is otherwise required by this Article.

[Added in 1912, amended in 1958, 1962, and 1988.
The addition was proposed and passed by the 1909 legislature; agreed to and
passed by the 1911 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the
1912 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1909, p. 347; Statutes of Nevada
1911, p. 446. The first amendment was proposed by initiative petition and
approved and ratified by the people at the general election of 1958. The second
amendment was proposed and passed by the 1960 legislature; agreed to and passed
by the 1961 legislature; and approved and ratified by the people at the 1962
general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1960, p. 512; Statutes of Nevada
1961, p. 813. The third amendment was proposed and passed by the 1985
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1987 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1988 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada 1985, p. 2365;
Statutes of Nevada 1987, p. 2349.]

Sec. 4.Powers of initiative and
referendum of registered voters of counties and municipalities.The initiative and referendum powers provided
for in this article are further reserved to the registered voters of each
county and each municipality as to all local, special and municipal legislation
of every kind in or for such county or municipality. In counties and
municipalities initiative petitions may be instituted by a number of registered
voters equal to 15 percent or more of the voters who voted at the last
preceding general county or municipal election. Referendum petitions may be
instituted by 10 percent or more of such voters.

[Added in 1962. Proposed and passed by the 1960
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1961 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1962 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1960, p. 512; Statutes of Nevada 1961, p. 813.]

Sec. 5. Provisions of article self-executing; legislative procedures. The
provisions of this article are self-executing but the legislature may provide
by law for procedures to facilitate the operation thereof.

[Added in 1962. Proposed and passed by the 1960
legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1961 legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1962 general election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1960, p. 512; Statutes of Nevada 1961, p. 813.]

Sec. 6. Limitation on initiative making appropriation or requiring
expenditure of money. This Article does not permit the
proposal of any statute or statutory amendment which makes an appropriation or
otherwise requires the expenditure of money, unless such statute or amendment
also imposes a sufficient tax, not prohibited by the Constitution, or otherwise
constitutionally provides for raising the necessary revenue.

[Added in 1972. Proposed and passed by the 1969
Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 1971 Legislature; and approved and
ratified by the people at the 1972 General Election. See: Statutes of Nevada
1969, p. 1720; Statutes of Nevada 1971, p. 2262.]

[CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS ACT OF 1996.]

[Added in 1998. Proposed by initiative petition and
approved and ratified by the people at the 1996 and 1998 general elections.]

SECTION A. BALLOT TITLE

THE CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS ACT OF 1996. THIS AMENDMENT TO
THE CONSTITUTION OF NEVADA INFORMS CITIZENS ON THE VOTING RECORD OF INCUMBENT
STATE AND FEDERAL LEGISLATORS AND ON A FEDERAL CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENT
LIMITING THE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES TO THREE
TERMS AND MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES SENATE TO TWO TERMS. THIS AMENDMENT ALSO
INFORMS THE VOTERS ABOUT THE POSITION OF NON-INCUMBENT CANDIDATES TOWARD THE
SAME CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS. THIS AMENDMENT INSTRUCTS STATE LEGISLATORS TO
APPLY TO THE CONGRESS TO CONVENE AN ARTICLE 5 CONVENTION UPON THE APPLICATIONS
OF TWO-THIRDS OF THE STATES (34) FOR THE PURPOSE OF PROPOSING AN AMENDMENT TO
THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION TO LIMIT CONGRESSIONAL TERMS TO THREE TERMS IN
THE UNITED STATES HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES AND TWO TERMS IN THE UNITED STATES
SENATE. THIS AMENDMENT INSTRUCTS MEMBERS OF CONGRESS FROM NEVADA TO WORK TO
PROPOSE A CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION. A TERM
LIMITS AMENDMENT PROPOSED EITHER BY CONGRESS OR BY AN ARTICLE 5 CONVENTION
WOULD BECOME PART OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION UPON RATIFICATION BY
THREE-FOURTHS OF THE STATES (38).

SECTION B. PREAMBLE

The People of the State of Nevada want to amend the
United States Constitution to establish Term Limits on Congress that will
ensure representation in Congress by true citizen lawmakers. The President of
the United States is limited by the XXII Amendment to two terms in office.
Governors in forty (40) states are limited to two terms or less. Voters have
established term limits for over 2,000 state legislators as well as over 17,000
local officials across the country. Nevada voters have supported such limits.

Nevertheless Congress has ignored our desire for Term
Limits not only by proposing excessively long terms for its own members but
also by utterly refusing to pass an amendment for genuine Congressional term
limits. Congress has a clear conflict of interest in proposing a term limits
amendment to the United States Constitution. A majority of both Republicans and
Democrats in the 104th Congress voted against a constitutional amendment
containing the term limits passed by a wide margin of Nevada voters.

The People, not Congress, should set Term Limits. We
hereby establish as the official position of the Citizens and State of Nevada
that our elected officials should enact by Constitutional Amendment
congressional Term Limits of three (3) terms in the United States House of
Representatives, and of two (2) terms in the United States Senate.

The career politicians dominating Congress have a
conflict of interest that prevents Congress from being what the Founders
intended, the branch of government closest to the people. The politicians have
refused to heed the will of the people for term limits; they have voted to
dramatically raise their own pay; they have provided lavish million dollar
pensions for themselves; and they have granted themselves numerous other
privileges at the expense of the people. Most importantly, members of Congress
have enriched themselves while running up huge deficits to support their
spending. They have put the government nearly $5,000,000,000,000.00 (five
trillion dollars) in debt, gravely threatening the future of our children and
grandchildren.

The corruption and appearance of corruption brought
about by political careerism is destructive to the proper functioning of the
first branch of our representative government. Congress has grown increasingly
distant from the People of the States. The People have the sovereign right and
a compelling interest in creating a citizen Congress that will more effective
protect our freedom and prosperity. This interest and right may not effectively
be served in any way other than that proposed by this initiative.

We hereby state our intentions on behalf of the People
of Nevada, that this Amendment lead to the adoption of the following
Constitutional Amendment:

CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS AMENDMENT

Section 1. No person shall serve in
the office of the United States Representative for more than three terms, but
upon ratification of this amendment no person who has held the office of United
States Representative or who then holds the office shall serve for more than
two additional terms.

Section 2. No person shall serve in
the office of United States Senator for more than two terms, but upon
ratification of this amendment no person who has held the office of United
States Senator or who then holds the office shall serve for more than one
additional term.

Section 3. This article shall have
no time limit within which it must be ratified by the legislatures of
three-fourths of the several States.

Therefore, We, the People of the State of Nevada, have
chosen to amend the state constitution to inform voters regarding incumbent and
non-incumbent federal and state legislative candidates’ support for the above
proposed CONGRESSIONAL TERM LIMITS AMENDMENT.

SECTION C. VOTER INSTRUCTION ON
TERM LIMITS FOR MEMBERS OF CONGRESS

1. We, the Voters of Nevada, hereby
instruct each member of our congressional delegation to use all of his or her
delegated powers to pass the Congressional Term Limits Amendment set forth
above.

2. All primary and general election
ballots shall have printed the information “DISREGARDED VOTERS’ INSTRUCTION ON
TERM LIMITS” adjacent to the name of any United States Senator or
Representative who:

a. fails to vote
in favor of the proposed Congressional Term Limits Amendment set forth above
when brought to a vote or;

b. fails to
second the proposed Congressional Term Limits Amendment set forth above if it
lacks for a second before any proceeding of the legislative body or;

c. fails to
propose or otherwise bring to a vote of the full legislative body the proposed
Congressional Term Limits Amendment set forth above if it otherwise lacks a
legislator who so proposes or brings to a vote of the full legislative body the
proposed Congressional Term Limits Amendment set forth above or;

d. fails to vote
in favor of all votes bringing the proposed Congressional Term Limits Amendment
set forth above before any committee or subcommittee of the respective house
upon which he or she serves or;

e. fails to
reject any attempt to delay, table or otherwise prevent a vote by the full
legislative body of the proposed Congressional Term Limits Amendment set forth
above or;

f. fails to
vote against any proposed constitutional amendment that would establish longer
term limits than those in the proposed Congressional Term Limits Amendment set
forth above regardless of any other actions in support of the proposed
Congressional Term Limits Amendment set forth above or;

g. sponsors or
cosponsors any proposed constitutional amendment or law that would establish
longer term limits than those in the proposed Congressional Term Limits
Amendment set forth above, or;

h. fails to
ensure that all votes on Congressional Term Limits are recorded and made
available to the public.

3. The information “DISREGARDED VOTERS’
INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS” shall not appear adjacent to the name of any
incumbent candidates for Congress if the Congressional Term Limits Amendment
set forth above is before the states for ratification or has become part of the
United States Constitution.

SECTION D. VOTER INSTRUCTION ON
TERM LIMIT PLEDGE FOR NON-INCUMBENTS

1. Non-incumbent candidates for United
States Senator and Representative, and the Nevada Legislature shall be given an
opportunity to take a “Term Limits” pledge regarding term Limits each time he
or she files to run for such office. Any such candidate who declines to take
the “Term Limits” pledge shall have the information “DECLINED TO PLEDGE TO
SUPPORT TERM LIMITS” printed adjacent to his or her name on every primary and
general election ballot.

2. The “Term Limits” pledge shall be
offered to non-incumbent candidates for United States Senator and
Representative, and the Nevada Legislature until a Constitutional Amendment
which limits the number of terms of United States Senators to no more than two
and United States Representatives to no more than three shall have become part
of our United States Constitution.

3. The “Term Limits” pledge that each
non-incumbent candidate, set forth above, shall be offered is as follows:

I support term limits and pledge to
use all my legislative powers to enact the proposed Constitutional Amendment
set forth in the Term Limits Act of 1996. If elected, I pledge to vote in such
a way that the designation “DISREGARDED VOTER INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS” will
not appear adjacent to my name.

_________________________

Signature of Candidate

SECTION E. VOTER INSTRUCTION ON
TERM LIMITS FOR STATE LEGISLATORS

1. We, the Voters of Nevada, hereby
instruct each member of the Nevada Legislature to use all of his or her
delegated powers to pass the Article 5 application to Congress set forth
herein, and to ratify, if proposed, the Congressional Term Limits Amendment set
forth above.

2. Application:

We, the People and Legislature of the State of Nevada,
due to our desire to establish term limits on Congress, hereby make application
to Congress, pursuant to our power under Article 5, to call a convention for
proposing amendments to the Constitution.

3. All primary and general election
ballots shall have the information “DISREGARDED VOTERS’ INSTRUCTION ON TERM
LIMITS” printed adjacent to the name of any respective member of the Nevada
Legislature who:

a. fails to vote
in favor of the application set forth above when brought to a vote or;

b. fails to
second the application set forth above if it lacks for a second or;

c. fails to vote
in favor of all votes bringing the application set forth above before any
committee or subcommittee upon which he or she serves;

d. fails to
propose or otherwise bring to a vote of the full legislative body the
application set forth above if it otherwise lacks a legislator who so proposes
or brings to a vote of the full legislative body the application set forth
above or;

e. fails to vote
against any attempt to delay, table or otherwise prevent a vote by the full
legislative body of the application set forth above or;

f. fails in any
way to ensure that all votes on the application set forth above are recorded
and made available to the public or;

g. fails to vote
against any change, addition or modification to the application set forth above
or;

h. fails to vote
in favor of the amendment set forth above if it is sent to the states for
ratification or;

i. fails to
vote against any term limits amendment, with longer terms if such an amendment
is sent to the states for ratification.

4. The information “DISREGARDED VOTERS’
INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS” shall not appear adjacent to the names of candidates
for the Nevada Legislature as required by any of subsections 3 (a) through 3
(g) if the State of Nevada has made an application to Congress for a convention
for proposing amendments to the Constitution pursuant to this act and such
application has not been withdrawn or, the Congressional Term Limits Amendment
set forth in this act has been submitted to the states for ratification.

5. The information “DISREGARDED VOTERS’
INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS” shall not appear adjacent to the names of
candidates for the Nevada Legislature as required by any of subsections 3 (h)
through 3 (i) if the State of Nevada has ratified the proposed Congressional
Term Limits Amendment set forth in this act.

6. The information “DISREGARDED VOTERS’
INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS” shall not appear adjacent to the names of
candidates for the Nevada Legislature as required by any of subsections 3 (a)
through 3 (i) if the proposed Congressional Term Limits Amendment set forth
above has become part of the United States Constitution.

SECTION F. DESIGNATION

1. The Secretary of State shall be
responsible to make an accurate determination as to whether a candidate for the
federal or state legislature shall have placed adjacent to his or her name on
the election ballot the information “DISREGARDED VOTERS’ INSTRUCTION ON TERM
LIMITS” OR “DECLINED TO PLEDGE TO SUPPORT TERM LIMITS.”

2. The Secretary of State shall consider
timely submitted public comments prior to making the determination required in
subsection (1) of this section and may rely on such comments and any
information submitted by the candidates in making the determination required in
subsection (1).

3. The Secretary of State, in accordance
with subsection (1) of this section shall determine and declare what
information, if any, shall appear adjacent to the names of each incumbent
federal legislator if he or she was to be a candidate in the next election. In
the case of United States Representatives and United States Senators, this
determination and declaration shall be made in a fashion necessary to ensure
the orderly printing of primary and general election ballots with allowance
made for all legal action provided in section (5) and (6) below, and shall be
based upon each member of Congress’s action during their current term of office
and any action taken in any concluded term, if such action was taken after the
determination and declaration was made by the Secretary of State in a previous
election. In the case of incumbent state legislators, this determination and
declaration shall be made not later than (30) days after the end of the regular
session following each general election, and shall be based upon legislative
action in the previous regular session and any action taken in any concluded
term, if such action was taken after the determination and declaration was made
by the Secretary of State in a previous election.

4. The Secretary of State shall determine
and declare what information, if any, will appear adjacent to the names of
non-incumbent candidates for the state and federal legislatures, not later than
five (5) business days after the deadline for filing for the office.

5. If the Secretary of State makes the
determination that the information “DISREGARDED VOTERS’ INSTRUCTION ON TERM
LIMITS” or “DECLINED TO PLEDGE TO SUPPORT TERM LIMITS” shall not be placed on
the ballot adjacent to the name of a candidate for the federal or state
legislature, any elector may appeal such decision within five (5) business days
to the Nevada Supreme Court as an original action or shall waive any right to
appeal such decision; in which case the burden of proof shall be upon the
Secretary of State to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence that the
candidate has met the requirements set forth in this Act and therefore should
not have the information “DISREGARDED VOTERS’ INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS” or
“DECLINED TO PLEDGE TO SUPPORT TERM LIMITS” printed on the ballot adjacent to
the candidate’s name.

6. If the Secretary of State determines
that the information “DISREGARDED VOTERS’ INSTRUCTION ON TERM LIMITS” or
“DECLINED TO PLEDGE TO SUPPORT TERM LIMITS” shall be placed on the ballot
adjacent to a candidate’s name, the candidate may appeal such decision within
(5) business days to the Nevada Supreme Court as an original action or shall
waive any right to appeal such decision; in which case the burden of proof
shall be upon the candidate to demonstrate by clear and convincing evidence
that he or she should not have the information “DISREGARDED VOTERS’ INSTRUCTION
ON TERM LIMITS” or “DECLINED TO PLEDGE TO SUPPORT TERM LIMITS” printed on the
ballot adjacent to the candidate’s name.

7. The Supreme Court shall hear the appeal
provided for in subsection (5) and issue a decision within 60 days. The Supreme
Court shall hear the appeal provided for in subsection (6) and issue a decision
not later than 61 days before the date of the election.

SECTION G. AUTOMATIC REPEAL

At such time as the Congressional Term Limits Amendment set
forth above has become part of the U.S. Constitution, sections A through
Section I of this Article automatically shall be repealed.

SECTION H. JURISDICTION

Any legal challenge to this amendment shall be filed as an
original action before the Supreme Court of this state.

SECTION I. SEVERABILITY

If any portion, clause, or phrase of this initiative is, for
any reason, held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a court of competent
jurisdiction, the remaining portions, clauses, and phrases shall not be
affected, but shall remain in full force and effect.

[ELECTION ORDINANCE.]

Whereas,

The enabling act passed by Congress and approved March
Twenty first A.D. Eighteen Hundred and Sixty four, requires that the convention
charged with the duty of framing a Constitution for a State Government “shall
provide by ordinance for submitting said Constitution to the People of the
Territory of Nevada, for their ratification or rejection” on a certain day
prescribed therein; therefore this Convention organized in pursuance of said
enabling act, do establish the following:

ORDINANCE.

Section 1. Proclamation
by territorial governor; general election. The Governor of
the Territory of Nevada is hereby authorized to issue his proclamation for the
submission of this Constitution to the people of said Territory for their
approval or rejection on the day provided for such submission, by Act of
Congress; and this Constitution shall be submitted to the qualified electors of
said Territory, in the several counties thereof, for their approval or
rejection, at the time provided by such Act of Congress; and further, on the
first Tuesday after the first Monday of November A.D. Eighteen hundred and
Sixty four, there shall be a general election in the several counties of said
Territory for the election of State Officers, Supreme and District Judges,
members of the Legislature, Representative in Congress and three Presidential
Electors.

Sec: 2. Qualified
electors may vote for adoption or rejection of constitution. All
persons qualified by the laws of said Territory to vote for Representatives to
the General Assembly on the said Twenty first day of March, including those in
the Army of the United States, both within and beyond the boundaries of said
Territory, and also all persons who may by the aforesaid laws, be qualified to
vote on the first Wednesday of September AD. Eighteen hundred and Sixty four,
including those in the aforesaid Army of the United States, within and without
the boundaries of said Territory may vote for the adoption or rejection of said
Constitution, on the day last above named. In voting upon this Constitution,
each elector shall deposite [deposit] in the ballot box a ticket whereon shall
be clearly written, or printed “Constitution Yes” or “Constitution No,” or
other such words that shall clearly indicate the intention of the Elector.

Sec: 3. Qualified
electors for first general election. All persons qualified
by the laws of said Territory to vote on the Tuesday after the first Monday of
November AD. Eighteen hundred and Sixty four, including those in the Army of
the United States, within and beyond the boundaries of said Territory, may vote
on the day last above named, for State Officers, Supreme and District Judges,
Members of the Legislature, Representative in Congress, and three Presidential
electors, to the electoral college.

Sec: 4. Elections:
Places, judges, inspectors and procedure. The elections
provided in this Ordinance shall be holden at such places as shall be
designated by the Boards of Commissioners of the several counties in said
Territory. The Judges, and inspectors of said elections, shall be appointed by
said Commissioners, and the said elections shall be conducted in conformity
with the existing laws of said Territory in relation to holding the General
election.

Sec: 5. Election
returns. The Judges and Inspectors of said elections shall
carefully count each ballot immediately after said elections, and forthwith
make duplicate returns thereof to the clerks of the said County Commissioners
of their respective Counties, and said Clerks, within fifteen days after said
elections shall transmit an abstract of the votes including the soldiers vote,
as herein provided, given for State Officers, Supreme and District Judges,
Representative in Congress and three Presidential Electors, enclosed in an
envelope, by the most safe and expeditious conveyance to the Governor of said
Territory marked “Election Returns”[.]

Sec: 6. Canvass of
votes; proclamation; issuance of certificates of election. Upon
the receipt of said returns, including those of the soldiers vote, or within Twenty
days after the election, if said returns be not sooner received, it shall be
the duty of the Board of Canvassers, to consist of the Governor, United States
District Attorney and Chief Justice of said Territory or any two of them to
canvass the returns in the presence of all who may wish to be present, and if a
majority of all the votes given upon this Constitution, shall be in its favor,
the said Governor shall immediately publish an abstract of the same, and make
proclamation of the fact in some newspaper in said Territory and certify the
same to the President of the United States, together with a copy of the
Constitution and Ordinance. The said Board of Canvassers, after canvassing the
votes of the said November elections shall issue certificates of election, to
such persons as were elected State Officers, Judges of the Supreme and District
Courts, Representative in Congress and three Presidential Electors. When the
President of the United States shall issue his proclamation, declaring this
State admitted into the Union, on an equal footing, with the original states;
This Constitution shall thenceforth be ordained and established as the
Constitution of the State of Nevada.

Sec: 7. List of
electors in Army of the United States. For the purpose of
taking the vote of the Electors of said Territory who may be in the Army of the
United States: the Adjutant General of said Territory, shall on or before the
fifth day of August next following, make out a list in alphabetical order and
deliver the same to the Governor, of the names of all the electors, residents
of said Territory, who shall be in the Army of the United States, stating the
number of the Regiment, Battalion, Squadron, or Battery, to which he belongs,
and also the County or Township, of his residence in said Territory.

Sec: 8. Transmission
of lists of electors in Army of the United States. The
Governor shall classify and arrange the aforesaid returned list, and shall make
therefrom separate lists of the electors belonging to each Reigment [Regiment],
Battalion, Squadron and Battery from said Territory in the Service of the
United States, and shall, on or before the Fifteenth day of August following,
transmit by mail or otherwise, to the Commanding Officer of each Regiment,
Battalion[,] Squadron and Battery, a list of electors belonging thereto, which
said list shall specify the name[,] residence and rank of each elector, and the
company to which he belongs, if to any, and also the County and Township to
which he belongs, and in which he is entitled to vote.

Sec: 9. Voting by
soldiers: Qualifications. Between the hours of Nine O’Clock
A.M. and Three O’Clock P.M. on each of the election days hereinbefore named, a
ballot box or suitable receptacle for votes shall be opened under the immediate
charge and direction of three of the highest Officers in command, for the
reception of Votes from the electors whose names are upon said list, at each
place where a Regiment, Battalion[,] Squadron or Battery of Soldiers from said
Territory in the Army of the United States may be on that day; at which time
and place, said Electors shall be entitled to vote for all Officers for which
by reason of their residence in the several counties in said Territory they are
authorized to vote, as fully as they would be entitled to vote in the several
Counties or Townships in which they reside, and the votes so given by such
electors at such time and place, shall be considered, taken and held to have
been given by them in the respective Counties and Townships in which they are resident.

Sec: 10. Voting by
soldiers: Procedure; count of votes. Each ballot deposited
for the adoption or rejection of this Constitution, in the Army of the United
States shall have, distinctly written or printed thereon “Constitution Yes”, or
“Constitution No”; or words of a similar import, and further, for the election
of State Officers, Supreme and District Judges, Members of the Legislature,
Representative in Congress and three Presidential Electors, the name and Office
of the person voted for shall be plainly written or printed on one piece of
paper. The name of each elector voting as aforesaid shall be checked upon the
said list, at the time of voting by one of the said Officers, having charge of
the ballot box. The said Officers having charge of the election shall count the
votes and compare them with the checked list, immediately after the closing of
the ballot box[.]

Sec: 11. Voting by
soldiers: Transmission of results. All the ballots cast,
together with the said voting list, checked as aforesaid, shall be immediately
sealed up, and sent forthwith to the Governor of said Territory at Carson City
by mail or otherwise, by the Commanding Officer, who shall make out and certify
duplicate returns of Votes given, according to the forms hereinafter
prescribed, seal up and immediately transmit the same to the said Governor at
Carson City by mail or otherwise, the day following the transmission of the
ballots and the voting list herein named, the said Commanding Officer shall
also immediately transmit to the several County Clerks in said Territory an
abstract of the votes given at the general election in November, for County
Officers marked “Election Returns”[.]

Sec: 12.Voting by soldiers: Form of return.The
form of returns of votes to be made by the Commanding Officer to the Governor
and County Clerks of said Territory shall be in substance as follows, Viz:

“Returns of Soldiers, votes in the (here insert the regiment,
detachment, battalion, squadron or battery)”--(For first election on the
Constitution.) .............................. I ..............................
hereby certify, that, on the first Wednesday of September A.D. Eighteen hundred
and sixty four the Electors belonging to the (here insert the name of the
regiment, detachment, battalion[,] squadron or battery.) cast the following
number of votes for and against the Constitution for the State of Nevada, Viz:
For “Constitution” (number of votes written in full and in figures.) Against
“Constitution” (number of votes written in full and in figures) ..............................
(Second election for State and other Officers) .............................. I
.............................. hereby certify that on the first Tuesday after
the first Monday in November A.D. Eighteen hundred and Sixty four, the Electors
belonging to the (here insert as above) cast the following number of votes for
the several officers and persons hereinafter named Viz:
.............................. For Governor ..............................
names of persons voted for, number of votes for each person voted for written
in full and also in figures, against the name of each person.
..............................

For Lieutenant Governor .............................. name
of Candidates, number of votes cast for each, written out and in figures as
above. ..............................

Continue as above till the list is completed.
..............................

Commanding Officer of the (here Insert regiment[,]
detachment, battalion, squadron, or battery as the case may be).

Sec: 13. Voting by
soldiers: Territorial governor to furnish form of return. The
Governor of this Territory is requested to furnish each Commanding Officer
within and beyond the boundaries of said Territory, proper and sufficient
blanks for said returns.

Sec: 14.Applicability to future votes of soldiers.The provisions of this Ordinance in regard to
the Soldiers vote shall apply to future elections under this Constitution, and
be in full force until the Legislature shall provide by law for taking the votes
of citizens of said Territory in the Army of the United States[.]

Done
in Convention, at Carson City the Twenty Eighth day of July, in the year
of our Lord One Thousand Eight Hundred and Sixty Four and of the Independence
of the United States the Eighty- ninth, and signed by the Delegates.